“The contract will be signed in June. (…) I disprove all rumors alleging Vinci’s withdrawal,” Neaga said Wednesday at the Construction & Infrastructure Summit ’14 organized by Ziarul Financiar.
Construction works on the highway will be carried out in stages and will set off nearly one month after the signing of the contract.
Mid-January 2014, Prime Minister Victor Ponta and then-Minister-delegate for infrastructure projects Dan Sova signed a memorandum of understanding with the highway builder, the consortium Vinci – Strabag – Aktor.
Ponta said at the time that construction on the 53-kilometer Comarnic-Brasov highway is to be completed in 2017, for an estimated EUR1.8 billion, and that authorities are considering a highway toll of RON5.7, net of VAT.