As part of the project to improve air quality, the Federal Ministry of the Environment and Tourism has announced a public procurement for the purchase of buses that will operate in Sarajevo. The public invitation provides for the procurement of five new low-floor electric buses with six single or four double filling stations and five new diesel buses.
The procedure will be carried out in accordance with the rules of the World Bank, which provided credit for the purchase of buses.
The procurement is carried out within the framework of Component 3 – Support for the transition to low-emission transport, whose beneficiary is the Ministry of Transport of Sarajevo Canton, and aims to provide low-emission public transport vehicles and improve the management of the bus fleet.
This project represents the first collaboration between the Ministry of Transport of Sarajevo Canton and the World Bank.
“After 50 new vehicles for public transport, 25 trams and 25 trolleybuses were purchased in the period 2021-2025, 35 more new vehicles will arrive in Sarajevo this year: 10 buses, 15 minibuses and 10 trolleybuses. In this way, the period from 2021-2027 will be marked by the procurement of 95 new vehicles for public transport”, said CS Minister of Transport Adnan Šteta.
For the buses whose procurement was announced today, delivery is expected in 2027, and thus Sarajevo will have electric buses in public transport for the first time in its history.
In the course of this year, the CS Ministry of Transport will initiate the procedure for the additional procurement of new trams with the goal that by 2030, Sarajevo will have 30 more new trams, which will completely replace the entire fleet of public transport with new vehicles, which will operate on new and renovated infrastructure, reported the CS Protocol and Press Service.
