Cernavodă-Medgidia motorway up for tender again. New deadline for completion set for 2012
The National Motorway and National Road Company of Romania (CNADNR) estimates the completion of the Cernavodă-Medgidia motorway section (19.25 kilometres) will cost 500 to 700 million lei (120-170 million euros) excluding VAT, reveals an ad published on the e-licitatie.ro
However, chances are rather slim that work should begin this year.
"It's very late. The termination of the contract comes with a series of repercussions on the construction process itself. Work will probably be resumed next year, considering the section in question will be put up for tender again, then there will be a time to challenge the result so that the 2011 construction season for this motorway will be over. Costs are high if we look at things with the time wasted in mind," said Răzvan-Niculescu Aron, first vice-president of the Ownership of Romanian Contractors (PSC).