Asian Development Bank offers €108m for Batumi Bypass Road
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has allocated €108 million to help improve regional connectivity and road transport efficiency in Georgia, while strengthening the country’s bid to become a regional transport and logistics hub.
The project will construct a new 14.3km bypass road skirting the Black Sea resort city of Batumi.
As part of the financing, performance-based maintenance contracts will be implemented for the routine and periodic maintenance of about 200 km of international and connecting secondary roads.
These contracts will consist of output and performance-based components including initial repairs, routine maintenance, periodic maintenance, and emergency maintenance works for effectiveness and efficiency.
The agreement was signed today between the ADB and Georgia's Ministry of Finance. Photo by Georgia's Ministry of Finance.
The estimated cost of the project is $315 million, of which €108 million will be provided by the ADB.
The new two-lane bypass road starting from the Senaki-Poti-Sarpi road and ending at the juncture of the existing Batumi-Akhaltsikhe road is an integral part of the East-West Highway.
The project implementation will start in 2017 and will be completed in 2022.
Currently the road lays through the touristic and residential zones of Batumi, which creates problems for international transit transport.
In order to solve this problem the Kobuleti bypass road has already been built while the Batumi bypass road will be built in about six years.
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