Uzbekistan, Tashkent, March 12 / Trend D.Azizov /
The China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) has finished rebuilding a section of the Guzar-Bukhara-Nukus-Beineu (A-380) road in Uzbekistan, the Uzbek Republican Road Fund said on Monday.
As previously reported, CRBC and Korean Posco Engineering Construction won a tender to reconstruct two sections of the road worth $173.5 million in May 2010.
CRBC won the tender to repair a road section with a length of 41 kilometers, and the Korean company was set to repair a 91 km section.
The cost of the contract with the Chinese company is $20 million.
The project is being implemented through a loan from the Asian Development Bank provided in 2007 for $75.7 million and the Uzbek government's own funds.
As previously reported, the Uzbek president approved a program to build a national highway worth around $2.6 billion in May 2009.
Under the program, it is planned to build by 2015 four sections of roads along the routes Beineu-Kungrad-Bukhara-Samarkand-Tashkent-Andijan, Bukhara-Alat, Bukhara-Karshi-Termez-Guzar and Samarkand-Guzar with a total length of 1,500 kilometers.
The project is funded by the government, and ADB, Islamic Development Bank and other international financial institution loans totaling $1.58 billion.
The total length of roads in Uzbekistan is 146,400 kilometers.