The Ministry of Transport and Road Infrastructure on March 24 signed the first three contracts for road rehabilitation of the 14 planned to be signed this year. The contracts were signed with three international companies selected at a tender contest, IPN reports.
The works on the R1 Chisinau-Ungheni-Sculeni road will be performed by a company from Azerbaijan and another one from the Czech Republic. The Azeri company EVRASCON will rehabilitate 17.6 km of road between the kilometres 6 and 24. The value of the contract is €23.1 million. The road will be repaired and extended. Another segment of the same road, between kilometres 24 and 68, will be rehabilitated by the Czech company OHL ZS. The cost of the works was assessed at €27 million. The company will also repair ten bridges.
The same Czech company will build 8 km of road bypassing Ungheni town, together with a passage over the railroad, bridges and drainage channels. The works will cost €10.7 million.
A portion of 31.2 km of the Chisinau-Giurgiulesti road will be rehabilitated by the Romanian company PA&CO International at a cost of €18.8 million.
“In only several months, the national roads will become a real building site. This year we will open 14 new building sites for which other contracts will be signed the next few months. The most important thing now is to do all the preparatory works so as to avoid delays as the previous years,” Minister of Transport Vasile Botnari said in a news conference.
A sum of €80 million will be allocated for building 91 km of road. The money was borrowed from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Investment Bank for a period of 15 years.
The works will last for 24 months. The contractors provide a guarantee of one year of the completion of the works.
