The Motorway company signed a contract on Friday with the Turkish construction company Nurol for the design and construction of the Tirgu Mures – Merkur Nirazului section, which is part of the A8 “Unirii” Tirgu Mures – Iasi motorway. It is about the length of 24.4 km, the contractual term of design is 6 months, execution is 24 months.

The contract with the Turkish entrepreneur NUROL INSAAT VE TICARET AS was signed on Friday by CNAIR for approximately 2.46 billion lei (excluding VAT). The developer will have 30 months (6 months design, 24 months execution) to complete the work from the date of issuance of the commencement order.

Driveways and viaducts are planned to be built along the route of the highway section (24.4 km), including 36 bridges.

The contract is funded by the PNRR and should, in theory, be completed by 2026, the final year for this program. According to the terms of the contract, the chances of completing this highway under the PNRR program are minimal.

In parallel, for another segment of the Tirgu-Mureş-Iasi motorway, included in the PNRR, 30 km between Legin and Mocea, where the contract with UMB was signed at the end of September 2023, but funding was not included in the 2024 budget. .

The end sections of the A8, captured on the PNRR / UMB, build the Moldavian end

The first two sections of the “Uniriy” highway A8 Tg. Mures – Iasi – Ungheni have been put up for auction since the end of last year. These are two sections:

• Tirgu Mures – Tirgu Neamts Highway Section I: Tirgu Mures – Merkur Nirajului and A3 Highway Connection – 24.4 km (including 2.4 km connecting road) – currently contracted to Nurol for approximately 2, 56 billion lei
• Tirgu Mures – Tirgu Neamts highway, section III: Legin – Tirgu Neamts – 29.91 km. Concluded contracts with Romanians from UMB for approximately 1.56 billion lei.

A8 “Unirii” highway – connecting Moldova with Transylvania and a race against time for funding for the PNRR

The “Unirii” highway A8 runs almost 320 km from Tirgu Mures (intersection with A3) to Iasi and Ungheni, on the border with the Republic of Moldova.

The sections from Tirgu Mures to Merkur Nirajului (approx. 25 km) and from Legin to Tirgu Neamts and to Moca/DN2 (approx. 30 km) are financed by the PNRR, a short-term plan developed by the EU for post-pandemic restart. Mandatory condition: completion of projects by 2026 and conclusion of contracts by the end of 2023.

On the “mid-mountain” site, the finalization of the feasibility study began in 2019 and only last year was completed and the technical and economic indicators were established (in total, it will cost 6.4 billion euros), the tender for design and implementation is expected, possibly this year.

For the Moțca/DN2 – Iasi – Ungen section, field studies were only carried out in 2023 after the project was blocked for more than a year at the route selection stage.

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