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Algeria signs off two contracts of Hauts Plateaux motorway work

The Algerian Council of Ministers has approved two contracts for stretches of road on the Hauts Plateaux motorway. No details of the contractors were given for the work that is to link Lambidiri to Draa Lahmar via Ouled Fadhel. Construction is expected to take 18 months. Last March, World Highways reported that work on the 1,000km Hauts-Plateaux motorway project was to begin that month. Construction cost for motorway’s 10 sections was estimated to be around US$8.94 billion, according to Algerian Minis
January 5, 2015 Read time: 2 mins
The Algerian Council of Ministers has approved two contracts for stretches of road on the Hauts Plateaux motorway.

No details of the contractors were given for the work that is to link Lambidiri to Draa Lahmar via Ouled Fadhel. Construction is expected to take 18 months.

Last March, 3260 World Highways reported that work on the 1,000km Hauts-Plateaux motorway project was to begin that month. Construction cost for motorway’s 10 sections was estimated to be around US$8.94 billion, according to Algerian Minister for Public Works Farouk Chiali.

He said local firms are being contracted to carry out the works exclusively, with each section requiring 36 months of work.

%$Linker: 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal The government announced early last year Visit &quot;nearly dzd 4,300 bn devoted to public works sector by 2019&quot; page false http://www.aps.dz/en/economy/1176-nearly-dzd-4,300-bn-devoted-to-public-works-sector-by-2019 false false%> that it had earmarked around US$53 billion development of the infrastructure including roads, motorways and civil engineering structures in the next five-year plan, from 2015-2019.

Chiali, who made the announcement, said road improvements will include construction of more than 1,000km of motorways including the Hauts Plateaux project, 700km of expressways and bypasses and more than 7,000km of trunk roads and secondary roads. Around 1,500 public engineering projects will also receive funding, he said.

Major improvements will also be made to road signage, according to a report by the national news agency Algerie Presse Service. New urban motorways will link the Mediterranean ports of Tenes, Bejaia and Jijel to the East-West Motorway.

The total cost of the East-West Motorway was around $11 billion with work done by several Chinese-Japanese consortia.

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