The new constructor will also redesign six passages for connection with county roads.
The highway’s construction has been divided into two sections with a total length of almost 39 km. The contract to build the first section was first 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 Alpine Bau for EUR124.45 million. Works on Arad-Nadlac began in the fall of 2011.
End-November 2012, Romania’s national roads authority CNADNR terminated the contract to build the first section of the highway, arguing the Romanian-Portuguese consortium had breached the contract terms and delayed works. In 2013, CNADNR also terminated the contract to construct the second section of the highway after Austrian building firm Alpine Bau went bankrupt.
At the end of 2013, the roads authority awarded to the Italian-German association of firms Astaldi – Max Boegl a contract of 308 million lei (EUR69 million), VAT included, for the completion of works on the first section of the Nadlac – Arad highway, which had been started by Romstrade.