Azerbaijan
Two bridges will be built between Azerbaijan and Iran
Salam News, 14.03.2022
On March 11, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Government of Azerbaijan and the Government of Iran. The project documentation will be prepared by the company within a month and approved in accordance with the requirements of the legislation. One of the bridges will be built by Azerbaijan, the other by Iran.
All expenses for the preparation of project documentation, construction and supervision of the construction of a road bridge connecting the eastern Zangezur economic region with Iran, as well as communication and energy lines will be paid by the Azerbaijani side.
The Iranian side bears all costs for the preparation of project documentation, the construction of a road bridge connecting Nakhchivan with Ordubad district, and construction supervision. Until the completion of the construction of automobile bridges, the parties provide the necessary construction, expansion and reconstruction works of highways on the territory of their state, as well as carry out the construction of access roads to the automobile bridge. It should be noted that this memorandum of understanding has been concluded for an indefinite period.
https://www.salamnews.org/ru/news/read/452969
Armenia
Transport projects of the South Caucasus: "Armenian Crossroads" and "Zangezur Corridor"
Ritumerasia, 19.03.2022
At one of the open meetings of the Armenian government, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced on February 17 that a prequalification competition for the construction of the Sisian-Kajaran section of the North–South highway had been announced. This stage will last 70 days, after which qualified companies will be able to participate directly in the tender.
60 kilometers of the mountain road between Sisian and Kajaran is one of the key sections of the 560 km long North-South road. The current road allows you to develop an average speed of about 50 km/h here. The new road will allow you to "accelerate" at a speed of 100 km per hour (which will reduce the travel time by two hours) and will be landscaped according to all modern safety standards.
According to the Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure Gnel Sanosyan, it will take 6 years to build the Sisian–Kajaran section worth several hundred million dollars: "This is a completely new road section, on which a total of 27 bridges will be built. There are more than 12 km of tunnel sections – five tunnels, one of which will have a length of 8.6 km. In other words, this is a very large-scale program, and we will do everything to ensure that leading international companies show serious interest in it. And if there are no other obstacles, then at the end of the year we will determine the contractor."
In turn, N. Pashinyan stressed the great strategic importance of this project for Armenia: "An investment program of this scale has not yet been implemented in the history of independent Armenia."
The European Union intends to allocate nearly 600 million euros to Yerevan for the construction of the Sisian–Kajaran section. According to official sources, even without EU funding, the Armenian government was ready to announce a tender for the construction of the site – the project documentation is already fully ready. In the absence of other sources of financing, the Government would use its own funds to conduct the tender.
Technical and design work has already begun on the construction of the Armenian section of the Yeraskh–Julfa– Ordubad–Meghri–Goradiz railway. "We hope that the agreements reached will be formalized in the form of a document and the de jure process will be in full swing in the near future," Varchapet continued. Thus, one of the branches of the "Armenian Crossroads" should connect Armenia with Iran and Georgia, the other with Azerbaijan and Turkey.
The North–South project will reduce the distance from the Iranian border to the Georgian border from 556 to 490 kilometers. The road will significantly facilitate access to the Black Sea not only for Armenia, but also for Iran.
Kazakhstan
New bridges will be built in Nur-Sultan: when traffic congestion disappears
Sputnik Kz, 19.03.2022
New roads will be laid in the capital and old ones will be repaired with the onset of favorable weather conditions, Akim of Nur-Sultan Altai Kulginov said.
In November 2021, the construction of the bridge along Tauelsizdik Avenue across the Yesil River was resumed. Earlier there were lawsuits, immediately after the resolution of all procedural issues, the construction of the bridge was resumed. This bridge will provide additional connection of Tauelsizdik Avenue, the area of the new railway station, Koshkarbayev Avenue, Nazhimedenov Street, Hazret Sultan Mosque area, Baitursynov Street, Kordai, Ainakol, Momyshuly Avenue with the left bank. The construction of the bridge is planned to be completed in 2023.
Republic of Moldova
When the new bridge over the Prut is built, two important highways of Moldova and Romania will connect
Kp Md, 14.03.2022
Moldova has approved the construction of a bridge to Romania across the Prut in the Ungen district. The decision was made at a meeting of the Parliament on March 10.
The purpose of the construction is to connect the Moldovan M1 road from Chisinau to Ungheni with the Romanian highway, which runs through Targu Mures, Iasi and Romanian Ungheni to the Moldovan–Romanian border.
The agreement on the construction of a bridge across the Prut was approved in early February by the governments of Moldova and Romania. According to the document, Romania finances the construction of the bridge, the access road and the entire infrastructure from its side. The Moldovan government will pay for the access road from the Moldovan side. Presumably, this will cost the budget 36 million lei. According to the plans of the authorities, the construction of the bridge will take three years.
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