About 70 percent of the rehabilitation works on the Sarateni-Soroca road funded through the Millennium Challenge Compact will be carried out in2013. Also this year the most complex associated works will be started, such as building of five bridges, including the grade separation at Sarateni, relocation of the railway bridge next to the town of Ghindesti, reconstruction of Soroca’s bypass road damaged by landslides.
According to the road rehabilitation contracts signed for the 93 km Sarateni-Soroca road segment, the latter is expected to be fully rehabilitated by June 2014.
Both the consortium of Turkish companies ONUR and SUMMA and the Austrian company Strabag have mobilized and are ready to start the rehabilitation works once the weather allows for it.
The consortium of the Turkish companies has about 130 items of equipment, including trucks, bulldozers, excavators, light towers, rollers, soil compactors, emulsion plant, dump trucks, and mobile cranes. In September it put into operation the asphalt plant with a capacity of 280 tons per hour.
This winter the consortium ONUR and SUMA procured about 70 thousand tones of construction materials, such as sand, pebble, gravel and granite and employed about 120 workers, 63 of which from Moldova and the others from Turkey.
Strabag, the Austrian company, in turn, has mobilized its equipment and team to start the rehabilitation works, and is expected to put its asphalt plant into operation by the end of March.
According to the contracts signed by MCA Moldova, the Turkish consortium ONUR and SUMMA will rehabilitate a 44.9 km road segment starting at the Sarateni junction and stretching to the entrance to the town of Ghindesti and will build the grade separation at Sarateni, while Strabag AG will rehabilitate a 48.1 km road segment from the entrance to Ghindesti to the Drochia junction (R7 and R9 junction).
The total cost of the rehabilitation and construction supervision of the Sarateni-Soroca road will exceed 99 million USD.
