The Motorway Company DARS signed Friday a EUR 6.1 million deal for the construction of a 560-metre motorway section between the Slovenia-Croatia border crossing of Gruskovje and the Croatian border. The deal was signed in the north-eastern town of Ptuj with Slovenian construction company SCT Ljubljana and Austrian Strabag.While SCT chairman Ivan Zidar and Strabag representative Dragisa Lazarevic could not name the exact date for the launch of construction, they did say that it should be completed within six months from that date. The section is a part of the Slivnica-Gruskovje motorway section in north-eastern Slovenia. The entire section is to be completed by 2013, with the first part between Slivnica and Drazenci, worth EUR 297 million, to be finished by 2009. (Vecer)