November 15 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's Road Infrastructure Agency said on Thursday that it has signed a 137.5 million levs ($79 million/70 million euro) contract for construction of a 14.5-kilometer road section with a tie-up between the Bulgarian and Polish units of Austria's Strabag, and Bitumina GmbH – Bulgaria, a subsidiary of Austria's Bitumina.
The contract concerns a road section between Kalotina checkpoint, on the border with Serbia, to Dragoman road junction, which is part of the road to Sofia, the government agency said in a statement.
Works must be completed within 852 days.
The agency is also due to sign a contract for the construction of a further 17 km of the road, from Dragoman road junction to Slivnitsa, with local GBS Infrastructurno Stroitelstvo.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)