 Construction of the motorway along its Split–Dubrovnik sector started once the motorway sectors north of Split were complete, and the section between Split (Dugopolje interchange) and Šestanovac interchange opened on 27 June 2007.The last sections to be completed to date are Šestanovac–Ravča, opened on 22 December 2008, Ravča-Vrgorac section opened on 30 June 2011, and the Vrgorac-Ploče section opened on 20 December 2013.In the 2000s, as the motorway construction works were gradually progressing further south, the motorway earned its unofficial, yet widely used name—"Dalmatina" in Croatian press because it connected Zagreb to Dalmatia.