Works to build the highway section have been carried out by consortium Romstrade – Monteadriano Engenharia e Construcao – Donrep Construct.
Among the reasons for terminating the contract, CNADNR also cited construction delays.
Mediafax reported in July that the European Commission was preparing a letter to stop one payment for the construction of Romania’s Arad-Nadlac highway, after finding irregularities and suspicions of fraud.
The highway’s construction has been divided into two sections with a total length of almost 39 km. The contract to construct the first section was awarded to Romanian-Portuguese consortium Romstrade- Monteadriano Engenharia e Construcao-Donep Construct for EUR115.8 million, while the contract for the second section was won by German company Alpine Bau for EUR124.45 million. Funding comes from the EU’s Cohesion Fund.
Work on Arad-Nadlac began last fall and is due in 2013. In March, then-Transport Minister Alexandru Nazare rebuked the contractors for delays to the highway’s construction and demanded they double their work capacity, in order to finish paving the road this year.