May 12 (SeeNews) - North Macedonia launched the construction of the Prilep - Bitola section of Corridor X, the government in Skopje said on Friday.
The 40 km-long will be built by US-Turkish joint venture Bechtel - Enka under a 1.3 billion euro ($1.4 billion) contract which also encompasses works on Corridor VIII, North Macedonia's government said in a statement.
The construction of the Corridor VIII and Corridor X sections will employ 8,000 people, the statement read.
In March, North Macedonia's government signed the agreement with Bechtel - Enka for the construction of four motorway sections of the two corridors with a combined length of about 108 kilometres.
Corridor VIII is an east-west route connecting Albania's Adriatic port of Durres to the Bulgaria's Black Sea port of Varna via North Macedonia. Corridor X runs from Austria's Salzburg in the north to Greece's Thessaloniki in the south.
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