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Trakiya motorway tenders scheduled for the autumn

The first long-anticipated tenders for construction of Bulgaria& rsquo;s Trakiya motorway will be held in the autumn, said construction minister Rosen Plevneliev. The 115-kilometre road linking the eastern towns of Stara Zagora and Karnobat should be completed in the autumn of 2012, he said. The ministry plans to tap European funding to bankroll the construction of the Maritsa motorway, which has so far been financed by the budget. The 67-kilometre stretch between Orizovo and Harmanli, in the south, has been divided into four sections, with tenders due to be invited next autumn. Construction works should finish by the spring of 2013. The final 132-kilometre section of Struma motorway in southwestern Bulgaria has also been split in four portions. The tender for the first Dolna Dikanya-Dupnitsa section will be invited in the autumn of 2010, with building works due to wind up by the spring of 2013. Early next year the ministry will seek a designer of the road between Dupnitsa and Blagoevgr...