Romania short on motorways because of wasting money on less important roads
The 30 biggest contracts awarded by the National Motorways and
National Roads Company in Romania (CNADNR) in the past four years
are worth a total of nearly 1.7 billion euros, but only eight of
them, worth more than 400 million euros were for works on motorways
or on bypasses. Over this period, CNADNR had nearly 9 billion euros
at its disposal.
The bulk of contracts that the institution sealed between 2007 and
2010 entail modernising or rehabilitation of national roads, as
well as multi-annual maintenance of the road network in several
counties.
In fact, the most valuable contract attributed by CNADNR during
this period was the one for the modernisation of a 148-kilometre
section of national road 67C between Bengeşti and Sebeş, a contract
amounting to nearly 335 million euros.
2010 was the slowest year in terms of contracts awarded by the
national motorways and roads company, with just one contract
standing out in terms of value, at nearly 180 million euros
excluding VAT. In fact, this was the only contract for the building
of a proper motorway awarded last year, won by a partnership
between Strabag and Straco Grup.