“We are conducting negotiations with Bechtel until April 30. Up to this deadline, each party has to draft its options for the available means to cease this contract’s enforcement. We will present the Government of Romania all these drafts, who will make a decision. The Bechtel contract will still disappear, either by mutual consent or by termination thereof”, Sova added.
Initially, the highway had to be ready by 2012. The 415 km of the future highway road between Brasov and Bors were divided into eight sections. Works began in 2004, when the Americans from Bechtel worked simultaneously at two road sections – Campia Turzii-Gilău and Suplacu de Barcau-Bors. Five years later, in December 2009, the first 42 kilometers of highway were ready, and in November 2010, the last 10 km of the section between Campia Turzii and Gilău were ready to use.
In 2011, the Minister of Transports at the time, Anca Boagiu, announced the termination of the contract with Bechtel for almost 300 kilometers of the Transylvania highway, the stretch of road where the American company had not even started works. Basically, the Americans should have to deliver the 118 km which they had began on the sections from Campia Turzii - Gilău and Suplacu the Barcău - Bors.
Therefore, in 2011, the first decision to terminate the contract would bring savings to the state budget of 6 billion Euros. With a standard cost of 6.9 million Euros per kilometer, if the highway had been completed by Bechtel, the total amount would have exceeded 9.9 billion Euros compared to the 3.8 billion, the cost estimated for the final works by the ministry of transports.
Currently, the only section that theoretically is still being worked on by the American company Bechtel is Suplacu de Barcau-Bors. Locals say that since the spring of 2011, the pace of work has slowed noticeably.
If the minister Dan Sova manages to terminate the contract with the Americans, after April 30, this section of highway will have to be guarded. Subsequently, CNADNR will need to complete two tenders for the selection of specialized companies to take over the construction works.
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