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Strabag in Hungary M6 deal

The southernmost Bóly-Ivándárda section is the last M6 section to be built.
By David Arminas November 10, 2020 Read time: 1 min
Hungary’s M6 is part of European route E73 (photo © Fabrizio Mariani/Dreamstime)

Strabag Epito and Duna Aszfalt will building a 20km section of Hungary’s M6 motorway between Ivandarda and Boly in a deal worth €278.5 million.

The M6 runs north-south along the Danube River, connecting Budapest to the seat of to the Croatian border where it will connect with Croatia’s A5, still under construction and improvements.

The southernmost Bóly-Ivándárda section is the last section to be built of the M6 which is part of the Pan European route E73. The 702km E73 joins Hungary and eastern Croatia to Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Adriatic Sea in the vicinity of the port of Ploče.

The E73 is also known as the Pan-European Corridor 5C, a branch of the fifth Pan-European corridor.

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