The maintenance of the two highways is part of a lease contract, jointly with the construction of the south section of Bucharest beltway.
“Starting this year, maybe in the fall, we can talk about a private partner that will be in charge with the taxation system. The implementation of a new taxation system is part of the lease project,” Neaga said Wednesday at the Construction & Infrastructure Summit ’14 organized by Ziarul Financiar.
Neaga added that, in his opinion, there is no highway in Romanian that can be financed exclusively from taxes at the moment, given the high traffic values.
Currently, Romania charges no highway taxes.
In February 2013, foreign companies Strabag, Vinci, Aktor and Astaldi and local companies Tehnostrade, Spedition UMB and Euro Construct Trading’98 , filed bids for a public works contract on designing, construction, financing, operating and maintenance of south section of Bucharest beltway and operation and maintenance of Bucharest-Pitesti and Bucharest –Constanta highways.