Uzbekistan 2013 road construction and repair works to cost around US$464.5mn
Around US$464.5 million is due to be spent building or upgrading more than 520km of roads in Uzbekistan during 2013, according to national road construction company Uzavtoyul. The extra-budgetary regional road fund will pay for the works.
January 3, 2013
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Around US$464.5 million is due to be spent building or upgrading more than 520km of roads in Uzbekistan during 2013, according to national road construction company Uzavtoyul. The extra-budgetary regional road fund will pay for the works.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said it will provide around US$2 billion for constructing new rural roads in five Indian states, according to The Hindu newspaper. The projects in Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal states, will involve constructing and upgrading 31,000km of rural roads that will improve connectivity to more than 12,500 villages.
The move will also provide more employment opportunities in the area, improve school enrolment and provides better remuneration for f
The Ugandan government aims to raise US$950million for new road projects via contractor-financing agreements. The funds will be used to construct 1,900 km of roads in the country. Calls for expressions of interest have been published by the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA).
Plans are in hand in Romania for
the upgrades to the Bucharest
ring road. This work is due to be
completed by 2014, according to
the country’s Transport Ministry.
Reconstruction and modernisation
of the Chitila-Voluntari segment of
the ring road was completed in 2010
and the modernisation of another
two segments were completed in
2011. Also, the upgrading of two
further segments will be finished
by mid 2013. The investment in the
five segments of the ring road is
expected to reach €100.17 mill
A report from the European Court of Auditors has highlighted the high cost of building roads in Latin America. The report states that it costs seven times more to build roads in Latin America than in Europe. The study compared 24 road projects across Europe and Latin America that were carried out between 2000 and 2013. Each km of road costs around US$116,000 in Germany, $164,000 in Greece, $215,000 in Spain and $218,000 in Poland on average. This compares to $2 million in Mexico, between $800,000 and $1 mil
