December 30 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's regional development ministry said on Wednesday it signed a 186 million levs ($104 million/95.2 million euro) contract for the construction of a section of the country's Struma motorway with a consortium of six local construction companies.
The contract for the 13 km section between the city of Blagoevgrad and the village of Krupnik in southwestern Bulgaria envisages the construction of eight bridges with a total length of 850 metres, three overpasses, three tunnels and three road junctions, the ministry said in a press release on its website.
The construction works should be completed in three and a half years.
The project is financed by the EU operational programme Transport 2014-2020.
The Struma motorway, with a total length of 173.28 km, is part of pan-European transport Corridor IV.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)