SOFIA (Bulgaria), September 28 (SeeNews) – Some 90% of the construction works on lot 2 of Struma motorway, which connects the capital Sofia with the Greek border, have been completed, Bulgaria's regional development ministry said on Monday.
The construction of the 37.5-kilometre section between Dupnitsa and Blagoevgrad, both in southwestern Bulgaria, will be completed by the end of October, the regional development ministry said in a press release.
The construction contract for the road section, worth 362 million levs ($206.7 million/185.1 million euro), 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 Bulgarian levs)