October 20 (SeeNews) - The construction of lot 2 of Struma motorway, which connects the Bulgarian capital Sofia with the Greek border, will cost 363 million levs ($210.3 million/185.6 million euro), local media reported on Tuesday.
The construction costs for the 37.5-kilometre section between Dupnitsa and Blagoevgrad, both in southwestern Bulgaria, will be some 1 million levs ($581,700/511,000 euro) higher than planned due to force majeure circumstances, Capital Daily reported.
The price update comes after in August landslides added 2.55 million levs to the construction costs for the section.
The construction contract for the section has been awarded to local companies Patstroy-92 and GBS Infrastructurno Stroitelstvo, and Italy's Ipresa.
The Struma motorway, with a total length of 173.28 km, is part of pan-European transport Corridor IV.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)