Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Oct. 20 / Trend D.Azizov /
The German GP Papenburg Baugesellschaft mbH won the tender announced in April to select the prime contractor for the reconstruction of the 50-kilometer stretch of the Husar-Bukhara-Nukus-Beineu (A-380) highway. The company and the Uzbek government signed a contract worth $ 86 million, a source in the government reported.
Under the contract, the German company will replace two-lane blacktop on a four-lane cement concrete pavement by late 2012.
The project will be financed through a loan worth $115 million of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) allocated to Uzbekistan in May this year. This is the first of three tranches under the ADB multitranche financing program totaling $ 600 million for the construction of national highway.
The Korean Posco Eengineering and Sconstruction (Posco E & C, unit of the largest steelmaker in South Korean Posco) and the Chinese China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) signed agreement in May with the Uzbek government to carry out reconstruction of two sections of road Husar-Bukhara-Nukus-Beineu (A-380) in Uzbekistan, worth $173.5 million by late 2011.
The total cost of the reconstruction work hits $173.5 million. Contracts with foreign contractors have already been signed and they under registration of the ministries and departments. As expected, the reconstruction of the road will begin in the second half of 2010 and completed by 2012.
President Islam Karimov approved the program of construction of national highway of the first category, valued at about $2.6 billion in May 2009.
Uzbekistan plans to build a first-category national highway worth $2.6 billion by 2015.
Under the national program, plans include constructing four sections of roads along the Beineu-Kungrad-Bukhara-Samarqand-Tashkent-Andijan, Bukhara-Alat, Bukhara-Karshi-Gusar-Termez and Samarkand-Guzar routes, with a total length of 1.501 million kilometers.
Under the project, 400-kilometer four-lane cement highways, 813-kilometer four-lane asphalt highways, 288-kilometer two-lane asphalt roads and seven transport interchanges will be built in the course of six years.
The project is divided into four sections - Beineu-Kungrad-Bukhara-Samarkand-Tashkent-Andijan, Bukhara-Alat, Bukhara-Karshi-Termez and Gusar-Samarkand-Guzar.
The total length of Uzbek roads is 146,400 kilometers. About 20 international transport routes run through the country.
The government will also allocate funds worth $1.68 billion for the project. Moreover, the Chinese government's credit line for Shanghai Cooperation Organization member countries and other international financial institutions will allocate funds for the project.
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