September 13 (SeeNews) - US-Turkish joint venture Bechtel-Enka began the construction of the Gostivar-Bukojchani section of Corridor VIII in North Macedonia, the country's transport minister, Blagoj Bochvarski, said.
Works on the 30.3-kilometre-long section were launched with the detonation of the pathway, Bochvarski said in a Facebook post on Tuesday.
Bechtel-Enka is building the motorway section under a 1.3 billion euro ($1.4 billion) contract which also encompasses works on Corridor X.
In March, North Macedonia's government signed the agreement with Bechtel-Enka for the construction of four motorway sections of the two corridors with a combined length of about 108 kilometres.
Corridor VIII is an east-west route connecting Albania's Adriatic port of Durres to the Bulgaria's Black Sea port of Varna via North Macedonia. Corridor X runs from Austria's Salzburg in the north to Greece's Thessaloniki in the south.
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