Azerbaijan
When will Azerbaijan open a road worth more than a billion manats
Az Sputnik News
16.01.2022
At the end of 2022 - the beginning of 2023, it is planned to complete the construction of a highway of international importance Baku-Guba-the state border of the Russian Federation, the State Agency "Highways of Azerbaijan" reported.
The construction of the road, which is part of the international North-South transport corridor, started in 2018. On the first section, with a length of 30 kilometers, the laying of the roadway has already been completed. Currently, construction work is continuing on the section from the 30th to the 90th kilometer. At the same time, the road from the 90th to the 150th kilometer of the highway is practically paved.
After the road is put into operation, the distance from Baku to the border with Russia will be reduced from 208 to 192 kilometers. In this regard, the Agency faces the task of completing the construction of a highway with a length of 150 kilometers.
The cost of the project is estimated at 1.2 billion manats.
39 interchanges and overpasses, 15 hydraulic and canal bridges, 41 inter-village underpasses, 514 ring concrete water lines of different diameters, 43 water channels, 20 road crossings and other communications will be installed and moved along the entire route.
The construction of a new highway will not only improve transport services, but also give impetus to the development of tourism in the region, create conditions for increasing incomes, developing the country's transport infrastructure, creating new jobs and solving many social problems.
The trip on the motorway will be paid. For this purpose, seven turnstiles will be installed along the entire route to pay for travel. The cost of the trip from Baku to the border has not yet been determined.
In parallel, the Agency is restoring the former Baku-Guba highway. To date, the roadbed in the direction of the village of Gadzhi Zeynalabdin Tagiyev is being repaired in Sumgayit.
In the next stages, the entire alternative road to the border with the Russian Federation will be gradually restored, the department promises. At the same time, it is not specified how soon it will be possible to comfortably get to Guba and back.
Georgia
Construction of new roads
Sputnik Georgia
12.01.2022
The Department of Highways of Georgia, with the financial support of the World Bank, is rehabilitating roads in the Guria region. The total length of the road sections under repair is 62 km, and the project budget is 58.5 million lari.
Restoration work on the road of domestic significance Sajavakho-Chokhatauri-Ozurgeti-Kobuleti (Nasakirali pass) in Western Georgia will be completed at the end of May, the Department of Highways of Georgia reports.
The project provides for the complete restoration of highways, including such works as the replacement of the road base, the installation of drainage systems, the construction of artificial structures and retaining walls, the laying of asphalt concrete pavement.
Road rehabilitation works in the Guria area are carried out by China Road and bridge corporation, which won the tender.
https://sputnik-georgia.ru/20220112/stroitelstvo-novykh-dorog-prodolzhaetsya-v-gruzii-263543795.html
Turkmenistan has approved a transport development program until 2025
Finmarket
15.01.2022
President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov approved the Program for the development of transport diplomacy until 2025, the corresponding resolution was published in the newspaper "Neutral Turkmenistan".
The coordinating bodies for its implementation are the Transport and Communication Agency under the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, Justice, Trade and Foreign Economic Relations, the State Border Service and the Central Bank.
The draft of this document was presented to the head of state by Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov during a government meeting last Friday.
According to Meredov, the program provides for strategically important measures aimed at the comprehensive modernization of the material and technical base of all types of transport in the country, the formation of a modern profile infrastructure, further strengthening the position of Turkmenistan as a regional center of international transport and transit corridors.
According to the Deputy Prime Minister, the program includes such areas as the development of the legal framework of this sphere and international cooperation in this area, the preparation of the Road Transport Code of Turkmenistan, continued cooperation with international organizations, including the UN and its regional commissions, the International Federation of Forwarding Associations, the International Air Transport Association, the International Civil Aviation Organization aviation, the International Road Transport Union, the Railway Cooperation Organization, the International Maritime Organization, etc.
The document reflects the measures necessary for the implementation of major international and interregional projects, further activation of the functioning of transport and transit corridors of global importance.
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