BULGARIA Strabag wins EUR 202 mln railway job
Infrastructureschedule 21 July 2020
The Strabag-led consortium is to upgrade 11.2 km of railtrack and construct eight tunnels.
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Austrian construction firm Strabag and local consortium partner GP Group AD has been awarded a EUR 202 mln (BGN 395 mln) contract to modernise a stretch of the Elin Pelin–Kostenets railway line in western Bulgaria. Strabag holds a 51 pct share in the consortium.
The EUR 517 mln railway project, which is being co-financed by the EU, is the largest in Bulgaria in the last 50 years. In total a 51 km stretch of railway is to be upgraded in three construction sections. The contract won by Strabag and GP Group (lot 3) entails drawing up the detailed design for a 11.2 km stretch of railtrack for passenger and freight traffic with operating speeds of up to 160 km/h. Eight tunnels with a total length of 5.5 km are also to be built, as well as viaducts and eleven
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