BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 19. Construction works on a highway connecting the main part of Azerbaijan with its Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic through Iran as well as a bridge across the Aras River are underway, the State Agency of Azerbaijan Automobile Roads told Trend.
Following the order of the President of Azerbaijan on arrangements for the construction of the Horadiz-Jabrail-Zangilan-Aghband highway linking the main part of Azerbaijan with Iran and the bridge over the Aras River, the agency continues construction works.
Construction of structures (retaining walls, pipes of different diameters, rectangular pipes, crossings, and concrete ditches) and earth bed continues on the 7.2-kilometer class 1 connecting highway constructed within the framework of the mentioned project. The overall progress of the work is up to 80%.
Construction of a 374 meter long and 27.6 meter wide road bridge over the Aras River has also kicked off under the project. The bridge, which consists of 4 traffic lanes, 2 safety lanes, and separation lanes, also includes the construction of pedestrian walkways with a width of 2.8 meters in each direction. Construction of the bridge support piles and cutting of pile caps is currently underway at the site. The progress on these works is at 10%.
The road bridge which is being constructed within the framework of the "Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran on the establishment of new communication links between the Eastern Zangazur economic region and the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (NAR) through Iran" will serve to increase transit cargo transportation through the territories of the two countries and facilitate travel to the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. The daily throughput capacity of the new road bridge will be 1,100 units of trucks.