Azerbaijan highway investment

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is set to transfer the US$ 150 million second tranche of a loan for construction of Masally-Shorsulu highway in Azerbaijan. The first $250 million ADB loan tranche has already been sent, with the overall project cost set to reach $625 million. Azerbaijan will get a $100 million third ADB loan tranche in 2016, taking the Bank’s total loan investment in the new highway to $500 million.
April 7, 2014 Read time: 1 min
The 943 Asian Development Bank (ADB) is set to transfer the US$ 150 million second tranche of a loan for construction of Masally-Shorsulu highway in Azerbaijan. The first $250 million ADB loan tranche has already been sent, with the overall project cost set to reach $625 million. Azerbaijan will get a $100 million third ADB loan tranche in 2016, taking the Bank’s Total loan investment in the new highway to $500 million.

Reconstruction of all Azerbaijan’s highways is set to cost at least US$38.2billion (AZN 29.94 billion), according to the national Ministry of Transport.

The overall length of highways across the country is 20,000km, with reconstruction works predicted to continue to around 2027.

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