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Tunisia’s key highways being planned

Tunisia is working on a series of major new highway connections. The new highway connecting Bou Salem with Beja and Oued Zarga should be ready for traffic in the third quarter of 2016. This will provide a highway link all the way from capital Tunis to Bou Salem, as the A3 previously stopped at Oued Zarga. In addition, the new highway connecting Gabès with Medenine in the south of Tunisia will be complete by the end of 2017. Meanwhile the winner of the tender process for the study into the El Kef highway con
July 11, 2016 Read time: 1 min
Tunisia is working on a series of major new highway connections. The new highway connecting Bou Salem with Beja and Oued Zarga should be ready for traffic in the third quarter of 2016. This will provide a highway link all the way from capital Tunis to Bou Salem, as the A3 previously stopped at Oued Zarga. In addition, the new highway connecting Gabès with Medenine in the south of Tunisia will be complete by the end of 2017. Meanwhile the winner of the tender process for the study into the El Kef highway connection will be announced shortly. The El Kef highway link is expected to cost US$272.5 million in all, with the work planned to be split into four separate sections.

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