With the inauguration of this section, the A1 Zagreb-Split-Dubrovnik motorway with full dual-carriageway standards is now 467 kilometres long.
The latest section, the construction of which cost HRK 1.1 billion (approximately 150 million euros), includes also five viaducts, four flyovers and one tunnel.
It was built by an association with the Hidroelektra-Niskogradnja company being the main constructor. Other companies included in this project were Viadukt Zagreb, Konstruktor-Inzenjering Split, Cesta Varazdin, Zagorje-Tehnobeton, Strabag Zagreb, Osijek-Koteks and Ingra, as well as Bau GmbH, Muenchen and Strabag Zagreb.
According to current prices at this motorway, the toll for Class 2 vehicles from Zagreb to Vrgorac will be 191 kuna.
At today's ceremony Kosor recalled that the section's opening coincided with the formal finalisation of the accession negotiations between Croatia and the European Union.
Recalling that Croatia is to join the EU on 1 July 2013, she said that Croatia would be the first country after Greece in 1982 to enter the Union as a single candidate. In other cases of the EU enlargements, groups of countries joined the bloc.