- Municipality of Senta
- Logistics
- Energy potential
- Infrastructure
- Population education and labor cost
- Key sectors
- Top 10 employers
- Greenfield
- Construction procedures
- Municipality incentives
- Success stories
- Your partner in municipality
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
Senta Logistics
Distance from borders:
- HUN - 42 km
- CRO - 103 km
- ROM - 20 km
- BUL - 482 km
- B&H - 217 km
Distance from highway:
- E-75 - 34 km
- E-70 - 175 km
Distance from airport:
- Belgrade - 174 km
- Osijek - 143 km
- Budapest - 218 km

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
- 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
- Electro distribution ownership: 67
- Private ownership: 20
GEOTHERMAL
50°C temperature | at 1,120 m |
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 21,376
Employed (2021) 5,775
Unemployed (February 2022) 1,025
Labor cost structure
Average salary in Senta (December 2021)
NET Salary | 546 | |
Personal Income Tax | 10.00% | 59 |
Contributions (Emploeyee) | 19.9% | 150 |
GROSS Salary | 756 | |
Contributions (Employer) | 16.15% | 122 |
TOTAL Cost | 878 |
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
Education
High Schools
School | Profile | #students | #graduates |
---|---|---|---|
Special Talent Gymnasium | Mathematics | 70 | 16 |
Fine Arts | 79 | 21 | |
Gymnasium | General | 204 | 48 |
Social-Linguistics | 99 | 22 | |
Science-Mathematics | 31 | 21 | |
Economics & Commerce | Finance Admin | 101 | 24 |
Business Admin | 133 | 37 | |
Commercialist | 54 | 0 | |
Salesman | 28 | 14 | |
Medicine | Pharmacy | 81 | 25 |
Nursing | 232 | 58 | |
Health caring | 7 | 0 |
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
Company | Sector | Country | #Employees |
---|---|---|---|
TISZA AUTOMOTIVE DOO | Automotive components | Hungary | 400 |
SENTA PROMET AD | Trade | Serbia | 369 |
JTI AD | Tobacco | Japan | 316 |
ZITOPROMET-MLIN AD | Agribusiness | Serbia | 214 |
BIOSPRINGER | Agribusiness | France | 200 |
FAS SHOES SERBIA DOO | Footwear | Switzerland | 94 |
EXTRAFORM DOO | Furniture | Serbia | 78 |
RASCO-TAMP | Metal processing | Croatia | 54 |
SEVERTRANS SENTA | Passenger Transport | Serbia | 45 |
ELMETAL DOO | Metal Processing | Serbia | 43 |
Greenfield locations in Senta
Location 1
Industrial Zone - South
Land size: 60,866 m²
Ownership: municipality
Infrastructure:electricity, gas, water, sewage, optical cable
For sale & lease
Industrial Zone South
- Port on river Tisza – in 200 m distance
- Industrial railway track
- Electricity substation
- Customs & freight office


Location 2
Industrial Zone - South
Land size: 28.383 m²
Ownership: municipality
Infrastructure: electricity, water, sewage, optical cable
For sale and lease
Location 3
Industrial Zone - South
Land size: 15,258 m²
Ownership: municipality
Infrastructure: electricity, gas, water, sewage, optical cable
For sale & lease


Location 4
Industrial Zone - South
Land size: 7,001 m²
Ownership: municipality
Infrastructure: electricity, water, gas, sewage, optical cable
For sale & lease
And many more greenfield locations in the Industrial Zone - South
Location 5
Industrial Zone - South
Land size: 4,805 m²
Ownership: municipality
Infrastructure: electricity, water, gas, sewage, optical cable
For sale & lease


Location 6
Industrial Zone - South
Land size: 7,110 m²
Ownership: municipality
Infrastructure: electricity, water, gas, sewage, optical cable
For sale & lease
Location 7
Industrial Zone - South
Land size: 5, 178 m²
Ownership: municipality
Infrastructure: electricity, water, gas, sewage, optical cable
For sale & lease


Location 8
Industrial Zone - South
Land size: 8,534 m²
Ownership: municipality
Infrastructure: electricity, water, gas, sewage, optical cable
For sale & lease
Location 9
Industrial Zone - South
Land size:77.584 m²
Ownership: municipality
Infrastructure: electricity, water, gas, sewage, optical cable
For sale


Location 10
Industrial Zone - South
Land size: 28.383 m²
Ownership: municipality
Infrastructure: electricity, water, sewage, optical cable
For sale and lease
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
Arpad Macko
Phone: +381 24 655 461; +381 64 872 25 348
Email: investinsenta@zenta-senta.co.rs; naplata@zenta-senta.co.rs