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Construction of Trakia Highway Lot III launched

Mon, Aug 02 2010 12:19 CET

byThe Sofia Echo staff

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Construction of Trakia Highway Lot III launched

Photo: Nadezhda Chipeva

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and Rossen Plevneliev, the Regional Development Minister, turned the first sod of Lot III of Trakia Highway on August 2 2010, the Bulgarian national television (BNT) announced.

The construction of Lot III has officially started, to be followed one month later by the construction of Lot IV.

The ceremony took place at noon at the Nova Zagora interchange, BNT said. The construction of the section, 36km in length, was awarded to the Greek firm Actor, worth a total of 112 million leva.

Construction on Lot II of the same motorway, the stretch spanning from Nova Zagora to Stara Zagora, started on May 3 2010. Magistrali Trace consortium, led by companies from Trace Group, one of Bulgaria's leading road-building firms, won the tender after it tabled the lowest bidding price of 137.9 million leva for the 32km stretch of motorway.

Plevneliev said that seven more tenders are expected to take place in September 2010, adding that the companies which will be entrusted with their construction are to be announced in March 2011.The minister added that 500 million euro are required for the construction of these lots.

The concept for a motorway from Sofia to Bourgas dates back to 1964, while the actual construction was launched in 1975. The Sofia – Plovdiv stretch of motorway took 10 years to build.

The stretch between Nova Zagora and Stara Zagora, 32km in total, is scheduled for completion by the spring of 2012.

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