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Bids in for Bucharest Ring Motorway segment

The 101km-long motorway - also called the Bucharest Belt Motorway and the A0 Motorway -will be an outer ring highway to the existing inner Bucharest Ring Road around the Romanian capital city.
By David Arminas April 3, 2024 Read time: 2 mins
Congestion will be eased on Bucharest’s existing ininer Ring Road when the outer Ring Motorway around Romania’s capital city is finished (© LCVA/Dreamstime)

Bids have been submitted for resumption of work on the Cernica Passage and widening to four lanes of 11km of the Bucharest Ring Motorway.

The bids have come from mainly Romanian contractors but include some from Bulgaria and one from both Spain and Ukraine. Th contract value is estimated to be around €92.2 million.

The group headed by the Romanian company MARISTAR COM includes the Bulgarian companies of HYDROSTROY and PATSTROY VDH.

CONI, from Romania, leads a group that includes GOTT STASSE and PERFECT CONSULT EUROPE, also from Romania, and INFRA EXPERT from Bulgaria.

PRECON TRANSILVANIA heads up the all Romanian group consisting of SELINA and IBB-HIB ROMANIA.

ROMAIR CONSULTING leads the group containing  OYL COMPANY HOLDING, OPR ASFALT and, from Spain, OBRAS PUBLICAS Y REGADIOS.

Finally, CONCELEX is working with X-WAY INFRASTRUCTURE and BOG’ART – all from Romania - as well as AUTOMAGISTRAL PIVDEN, based in Odessa, Ukraine.

The 101km-long Bucharest Ring Motorway - also called the Bucharest Belt Motorway and the A0 Motorway - is intended to be an outer ring highway to the existing inner Bucharest Ring Road. When finished, it will A1, A2 and A3 motorways.  

Last November, the first segment of the section of the ring motorway opened - between the A3 motorway and national road DN1. In December the only section to be completed on the southern section opened to traffic - between DN5 and DN6.
 

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