Bulgaria Launches Construction of Struma Motorway Stretch

The value of the construction works excludes Value Added Tax (VAT), the ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

The 17-kilometre stretch between Dolna Dikanya and Dupnitsa will be built by a tie-in comprising two local and one Italian company.

The Struma motorway has a total length of 173.28 kilometres and is part of pan-European transport Corridor IV.

Bulgaria has so far built 40 kilometres of the Struma motorway. The government has pledged to complete the construction works on the motorway by 2013.

(1 euro = 1.95583 Bulgarian levs)