Lyulin Highway to be completed by end-2010, contractor says
Lyulin Highway, the shortest of Bulgaria's planned highways at 19km, would be completed by December 21 2010, a company official said on January 21.
The consortium of two Turkish construction companies, Mapa and Cengiz, gave the Government on January 20 its schedule for completing the highway.
"The schedule we presented is realistic and doable. We will not compromise with quality, we will increase capacity so that we complete Lyulin on time," the head of the Bulgarian subsidiary of Mapa, Rustu Dincer, told Dnevnik daily.
"Right now we are in talks with several Bulgarian companies to subcontract and if we have to, we can sign contracts with 10 companies."
The consortium has built seven km of highway, but only eight per cent of the bridges and has only started on the first of three tunnels.
Mapa-Cengiz has made headlines over allegations that it paid Turkish workers triple the salaries of its Bulgarian employees and was also criticised for the slow pace of work on the project, which is financed with European Union funds.
Regional Development Minister Rossen Plevneliev has rejected the plea made earlier in January by the chamber of Bulgarian road-building companies to break the contract with the consortium and award it to Bulgarian companies. Doing so would result in losing the European Union funding for the project, Plevneliev said.
Text source: sofiaecho.com
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