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Croatian Times
Geodetics company Geofoto has signed a contract with Montenegro for making digital elevation models for the entire country.
Only 10 days after receiving a job in Macedonia, the Zagreb-based company won the Montenegrin public tender worth 1.2 milion Euros last week, beating the eight biggest European firms in the sector.
The project is co-financed by Norwegian and Montenegrin governments, the former contributing 900,000 Euros and the latter the rest.
New photographs will be used for space planning, road construction, tourism and many other activities, the Director of Montenegro's Real Estate Administration Mico Orlandic said.
With the realization of this project and acquisition of several others, by the end of the year Geofoto will have surpassed the Norwegian Bloom group to become the biggest European company for geodetics and geoinformatics, company owner and director Zvonko Biljecki said.
"We just won another public tender in Plebeian in competition with 17 other firms, a project to reform the whole cadastral system worth 10 million dollars. We also received tenders in Bulgaria, Argentina and Guatemala worth 10.9 million dollars," Biljecki said.
He added that the the company would finish the three-dimensional records of the Croatian territory commissioned by the Ministry of Defense and following NATO standards by the end of the year.
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