Bidding is underway for the first section of Bulgaria's Trakiya Highway. This will be followed shortly by the bidding process for the second 32km stretch of the highway which will be 32km long. The highway is due for completion by early June 2010.
July 5, 2012
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Bidding is underway for the first section of Bulgaria's Trakiya Highway. This will be followed shortly by the bidding process for the second 32km stretch of the highway which will be 32km long. The highway is due for completion by early June 2010.
Bulgaria has started work on a 12.6km section of Struma motorway between the southwestern towns of Blagoevgrad and Krupnik.
A consortium led by Bulgarian construction company Agromah is building the section under a contract worth just over €71 million, according to the regional development ministry.
The preparatory work is underway for a stretch of the Ipswich Motorway widening project in Queensland Australia. The project is worth around US$318.6 million (A$400 million). This first section of the widening work is 3km long and runs from Granard Road at Rocklea to the Oxley roundabout. The work involves widening the route from four lanes at present to six lanes and improving seven bridges, which includes increasing the height of the bridge over Oxley Creek. The 10km widening project is intended to reduce
Great Wall Motor has become the first Chinese carmaker to open an assembly plant in Europe as it aims to lift sales in the region and, according to a company statement, is also a symbolic event for Chinese auto brands to challenge the high-end market car in the EU. The assembly plant, inaugurated this week in Bulgaria, has a production capacity of 50,000 cars and the Voleex C10 will be the first assembled model, followed by the Wingle 5, Voleex C20R, and Haval.
Huge highway developments are being planned and carried out to further improve East-West transport, with Central Asia a key region as Patrick Smith reports
History was made in late 2010, when one of the biggest road building projects ever envisaged in Eastern Europe was given the green-light.
It was the occasion when Russian president Dmitry Medvedev signed a law that would allow his country to build its segment of a huge highway around the Black Sea.
The idea is to complete the 7,140km highway, wi
