Baku, Azerbaijan, June 12
By Rufiz Hafizoglu - Trend:
A consortium of companies “Powerchina International Group”, “Powerchina Road Bridge Group” and “Ozgun Insaat” won the tender for the construction of a 154 km long highway between Turkey’s Aydin and Denizli provinces, Trend reports June 12 with reference to the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure of Turkey.
The consortium offered the most suitable price of 5.3 billion liras.
“The tender was held March 26 this year,” the ministry said.
Also, 71 bridges will be built as part of the highway construction.
The total budget allocated for the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure of Turkey for implementing transport and infrastructure projects in the country will amount to 64.275 billion Turkish liras in 2020-2021.
Some 31.183 billion liras will be allocated for the implementation of projects in 2020, which will be 3.413 billion liras more compared to the budget for 2019.
An amount of 31.092 billion liras will be allocated for the implementation of projects in 2021.
(1 USD = 5.7895 TRY on June 12)
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