In 1945, a group of engineers, technicians and workers at the Directorate of the Yugoslav Railways was given the task to reconstruct the railway bridge at
Pančevo over
Tamiš which was destroyed during World War II. In 1946 and 1947, the group was expanded and given additional responsibility to reconstruct the bridges over
Tisa at
Titel and over
Danube at
Bogojevo. In July 1947, the Directorate of
Yugoslav Railways established Mostogradnja Railway Civil Engineering Enterprise, to specialize in bridge construction. The headquarters of the company, which were formerly situated at various sites of large projects, were finally moved from Titel to Belgrade in early 1949. In 1952, Mostogradnja separated from the public railway company and became an independent enterprise. During the 1950s, Mostogradnja was expanded with the addition of the public railways' Enterprise For Repair of Construction Machines at
Batajnica in 1955, and
Pionir, another bridge construction enterprise from Belgrade in 1959. In the 1970s and 1980s, Mostogradnja completed a series of major construction projects in Yugoslavia and abroad. The projects at home included the
Gazela bridge and Mostar and
Autokomanda interchanges, several bridges over Danube, and the bridge connecting the island of
Krk to the
Croatian mainland, which at the time of construction featured the longest concrete arch in the world. Abroad, the company constructed bridges, hangars, reservoirs, aerials and various industrial and military structures in Europe, Asia and Africa. These included a series of bridges over
Tigris and
Euphrates in
Iraq. By the early 1980s, Mostogradnja had 5,000 employees and was among world's top 250 construction companies. The decline of Yugoslavia and consequent
United Nations trade embargo on Serbia in the 1990s reduced the company's market, but it continued to build domestic projects, including the bridges over Sava at
Obrenovac and
Ostružnica. The previously
socially owned enterprise was privatized and became a
joint stock company. Company's recent projects have included the reconstruction of bridges destroyed by
NATO during
Kosovo war in 1999, as well as the repairs to numerous bridges across Serbia. The
Government of Serbia tried several times to sell its majority stake in company's ownership, but public auctions failed in 2009 and 2015. In 2018, it was reported that the Government still had plans to sell its ownership share in the company by 2020. In August 2021, Mostogradnja went into bankruptcy procedure. In May 2024, it was reported that the facilities of the bankrupt Mostogradnja are leased way below the market price to "Mostogradnja ing", a subsidiary of the Serbian construction company
Millennium Team, which is closely connected to the ruling
Serbian Progressive Party. ==Projects==