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Argentinian government to tender up to US$7 billion of work.

Argentina's Transport Minister Guillermo Dietrich has revealed that the government will tender road projects worth nearly US$7 billion in the second half of this year. Work will start for some of the contracts by the end of this year and up to 2019, he said.
May 9, 2016 Read time: 1 min

Argentina's Transport Minister Guillermo Dietrich has revealed that the government will tender road projects worth nearly US$7 billion in the second half of this year.

Work will start for some of the contracts by the end of this year and up to 2019, he said.

Contracts will cover 12,800km of motorways, 4,000km of safe roads and 11,400km of improved roads.

The first of the contracts to be tendered, in the next few days, will be for two sections of route 7 and works along route 40.

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