Senta

Municipality of Senta

Senta is a town and municipality on the bank of the Tisa river in the Vojvodina province, Serbia. Although geographically located in Bačka, it is part of the North Banat District.

TOP 5 REASONS TO INVEST IN SENTA

• Proven record of attracting FDI - investors from 9 countries
• Waterway with river port - capacity 1 mil t & warehouse 18,000 m²
• Re-trainable unemployment pool - various programs available
• Existence of water purifiers - 1 municipal & 2 private
• Four investment projects in pipeline - to be realized in the next 2 years

Energy potential in Senta

GAS

• Municipality is gasified: 100 million
• Local pipeline lenght: 60 km
• Presure on main pipeline 6 bar
• Presure on local pipeline 1 bar - 60 km length

BIOMASS

• Total land: 29,340 ha
• Agricultural land: 26,516 ha
• Arable land: 25,556 ha
• Most common crops: malze (65%), wheat (15%), sugar beet (7%), alfaalfa (5%), sunflower (3%), other (5%)
• *In progress: construction of the cogeneration plant on biomass with excess heat energy

ELECTRICITY

• No. of distribution substations: 115

- Electro distribution ownership: 67

- Private ownership: 20

• Total power (kVA): 27,080 + 2,000
• Total network length (km): 363 km + 30
• Energy supplied in 2013: 119,213 MWh
• Available capacities: 35,000 kVA

GEOTHERMAL

Infrastructure in Senta

ROADS

Regional road network: 44 km

- Connecting Croatia-Romania border

Local road network: 25 km

OPTICAL CABLE

Cable length: 30 km

- Developed cables in the industrial zone

WATERWAY

River Tisza length: 12,7 km

- Port in Senta - distance 18km

• located in industrial zone, the annual transfer capacity of cca. 1.5 mil t of various goods
• 2 reloading locations with capacity up to 1,800 t
• public warehouses and public indoor and outdoor storage with capacity of over 18,000m²

Canal network length: 132 km

RAILWAY

Railway network length: 84 km

• Subotica-Senta-Coka- Novo Milosevo
• Railroad track in the industrial zone
• Road and railorad bridge on the Tisza river

Axial pressure: 16-20 t

SEWAGE

Sewage system capacity: 17,000 ES

Sewage network: 88 km

3 waste water treatment plants

- 2 private, and 1 city plant capacity 17,000 ES

main collector is in industrial zone, lenght 1,000m

Population, education and labor cost in Senta

Number of inhabitants 23,316

Employed (2019) 7,592

Unemployed (April 2020) 995

Labor cost structure

Average salary in Senta (August, 2018)

From July 1st, 2014, until December 31st 2019, the employers have the right for refund on the paid personal income tax & socal insurance contributions:

• 65% refund for employing 1-9 workers
• 70% refund for employing 10-99 workers
• 75% refund for employing 100+ workers

Average Salary for Production sector in Vojvodina, November 2017

NET: € 398

GROSS: € 550

TOTAL COST: € 527

Average salary (total cost) for 2017 €548

Education

High Schools

Key sectors in Senta

Agribusiness

Main advantages:

• 25,500 ha of agricultural land – 97% of total land area
• cereal & industrial plant crops – cca. 24,000 ha
• vegetable crops – 280 ha
• fruit crops – 380 ha
• grape crops - 160 ha
• medicinal herbs & other 1,100 ha
• Well-developed processing industry: sugar processing, milling, tobacco, etc.
• Storage capacity for grains
• Municipality projects - irrigation network
• 132,204 m lenght of drainage & irrigation network with the possibility of extending the canal network

Meat & Dairy

Main advantages:

• Majority of local population lives in rural areas
• Possibility of organizing cooperative livestock farming
• The biggest pig farm has 5,000 pigs
• 4 milking cow farms (milk producers without milk processing plant)
• Tradition in milk production
• Presence of high-quality Animal Feed producers in the region

Fruit Vegetable

Main advantages:

• Highest number of local inhabitants engaged in agriculture
• More than 500 registered local farmers
• Outstanding quality and easy-access to resource base benefits fruit & vegetable processing sector establishment

Automotive Components

Main advantages:

• Know-how & rich experience from the past
• Long tradition in industrial production
• Qualified workforce eager to expand their competencies
• Available relevant training programs in municipality
• Existing foreign investors & successful companies: Mecafor, Tisza-Automotive doo, Rasco-Tamp
• Local supplier network
• Investment opportunities: Existence of suitable Brownfield & Greenfield locations

Wellness Tourism

Main advantages:

• Potential for thermal spa center development - thermal water study analysis performed:
  belongs to the category of mineral, calcium-magnesium-hydrocarbon, sulfuric hyper-thermal water. Indications: musculoskeletal system diseases, neurological diseases; gynecological diseases
• Thermal borehole with 50° C temperature
• Health Centers (Hospitals) in the city of Senta
• Sport center with all accompanying contents (jacuzzi, sauna, gym, ect.)
• Open sport facilities (tennis courts, athletic stadium, football stadium, bowling alley, swimming pools)
• Easy access to qualified workforce – medical high-school
• Investment opportunities: Spa centers development
  currently just 178 beds cannot accommodate demand

Top 10 Employers in Senta

Upon receiving the investor’s request

the consolidated construction procedures are conducted in the following phases:

• Issuing the location conditions for the cadastre parcel suitable for construction – from the day of obtaining all special conditions, permits and other documents --> no later than 5 working days
• Issuing the construction permit – from the day of the submission of the request --> no later than 5 working days

Upon receiving the application:

Based on registering the construction work,issuing the verification for receiving the application without delay, provided that the complete documentation has been submitted.

- Registering the construction works to receive acceptance/rejection --> 5 working days

- Subsequently, submitting the request for infrastructure installations --> 3 working days

Issuing the occupancy permit, upon receiving the submission of the request --> no later than 5 working days

Issuing the final approval upon receiving the submission of the request --> no later than 5 working days

In total: 28 working days

Incentives and Fees in Senta

Communal Fee

0% for company name display on office buildings for the first year of doing busines

Local action program for employment

in the form of public work and intership programs to acguire practical knowledge with a private employer

Success Stories in Senta

Municipality Office

Local Economic Development Department