Algeria East-West Highway opening due

The long running saga of Algeria’s East-West Highway should come to a key point soon, when most of the route will finally be open to traffic. The 1,216km-long route will be fully operational at the end of October 2015. This is of course with the exception of the Lakhdaria section, which still requires rehabilitation work to be carried out. The repairs are expected to carry on until May or June 2016. Contractors from all over the world have been involved in the East-West highway project but certain stretches
September 9, 2015 Read time: 2 mins
The long running saga of Algeria’s East-West Highway should come to a key point soon, when most of the route will finally be open to traffic. The 1,216km-long route will be fully operational at the end of October 2015. This is of course with the exception of the Lakhdaria section, which still requires rehabilitation work to be carried out. The repairs are expected to carry on until May or June 2016. Contractors from all over the world have been involved in the East-West highway project but certain stretches built by Chinese, South Korean and Japanese firms have suffered delays as well as quality issues. These have been the subject of official scrutiny and not all the legal cases have yet been resolved. As part of the commissioning, the national agency of motorways ANA and the motorway management agency AGA will merge into the Algerian motorway agency ADA, the Ministry of Public Works has revealed.
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