Montenegro is to cancel the pre-qualification tender for a 22km motorway venture following a request from the EU and the European Financial institution for Reconstruction and Improvement (EBRD), that are financing the venture, See Information studies.
The request got here after the Montenegrin transport ministry shortlisted three Chinese language firms, and one from Azerbaijan. The request was additionally prompted by protests from native individuals towards the chosen route.
9 bidders had expressed curiosity within the €605m sub-project of the 165km Bar-to-Boljare motorway, itself a sub-project of the freeway that may finally join Belgrade with the Adriatic.
The street has a price ticket of €2bn, reflecting the quantity of civil engineering that might be essential to drive the street by means of the area’s mountainous terrain. Altogether, some 50 tunnels and 95 bridges and viaducts are deliberate.
The brand new tender might be open to all firms, together with those that didn’t qualify.
The 9 firms within the operating had been Austria’s Strabag, Turkish corporations Dogus and Cengiz, North Macedonia’s Gradjevinski Institut Makedonija and Baybnet Group of Montenegro.
The shortlisted bidders had been Azerbaijan’s Azvirt, China’s Shandong Hello-Velocity Group, Energy Development Company of China and China Communications.
The choice to cancel the process will delay the deliberate launch of development works on the venture, which was anticipated to happen this 12 months.
The part affected by the retender will run between the cities of Matesevo and Andrijevica. Will probably be the second part of the Montenegrin aspect of the motorway.
The primary was the 41km part between Smokovac and Matesevo, which was constructed by China Street and Bridge, a subsidiary of China Communications, and opened for visitors in July 2022.
The motorway is a part of the EU’s transport hall XI, a ferry/motorway route connecting Bari in Italy with Bucharest through Montenegro and Belgrade.
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