The document says that, by the end of this year, the Romanian government will update the project plans for other sections of the Transylvania Highway – Gilau-Nadaselu and Campia Turzii- Iernut – and an auction for the section Iernut- Targu Mures will be held early next year.
The construction of the Transylvania Highway, which links central Brasov to western Bors on the Hungarian border, began in 2004 with a EUR2.2 billion contract awarded to Bechtel. The highway is designed to be 415 km long, but only 52 km have been built so far.
Last month, the Government approved a new contract with Bechtel, which reduces the cost of the project to EUR6.9 million per km and allows the sections where work has not begun to be auctioned off.