Sections of Samtredia-Grigoleti road under E60 to be opened this year
The road starts at km 42 of the Zestaponi-Kutaisi bypass-Samtredia road at river Ochopa and the Black Sea coastline Grigoleti area, and ends at river Supsa in western Georgia’s Guria province. Photo: Ministry of Infrastructure
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The first and the fourth sections of the Samtredia-Grigoleti road in Georgia’s west, under the E60 highway, will open this year, Georgian Infrastructure Minister Irakli Karseladze announced on Wednesday.
The road starts at km 42 of the Zestaponi-Kutaisi bypass-Samtredia road at river Ochopa and the Black Sea coastline Grigoleti area, and ends at river Supsa in western Georgia’s Guria province. The project for modernising the road is being implemented in four sections and aims to improve the capacity for increased traffic flows, ensure road safety and uninterrupted transit traffic.
Karseladze said it was "a challenging project" both in terms of geological conditions and with three terminated contracts over the initiative, but added the two sections of the road would be completed in 2022.
"As a result, the opening of the first section will create the possibility that 86 km of the road will be a four-lane highway. Also, we plan to complete 11 kilometres of the Grigoleti-Kobuleti [seaside] road this year, and three kilometres next year," he added.
Construction works on 88 bridges and 51 tunnels are “actively underway” at the Rikoti Pass, a mountain section dividing Georgia into its eastern and western parts, the Roads Department announced on Tuesday.
Construction is underway for the Kvesheti-Kobi road and tunnel section in Georgia’s north, with the section forming a part of the North-South corridor in the central part of the country.
A 51-kilometer road connecting the two Georgian regions of Zemo Imereti and Racha has opened today, shortening the distance between the two regions by 80 km and reducing travelling time by 1.5 hours. The new road starts from the Sachkhere village and passes through seven villages. Finally the road joins the Ambrolauri-Oni road.
The first 2 km two-lane section of the Rikoti Highway, a mountain pass which divides Georgia into its eastern and western parts, has opened today, announces the Ministry of Infrastructure. Georgian Infrastructure Minister Irakli Karseladze said that currently traffic is open on two lanes of a 2 km four-lane section, while the construction of a parallel two-lane road is underway.
A 21-kilometre section of western Georgia’s Zestaponi-Kitskhi-Kharagauli highway is undergoing “complete rehabilitation,” the Georgian Roads Department announced on Tuesday.
Rehabilitation of roads continues in western Georgia, where about 600 kilometres of roads are planned to be updated this year, the Georgian Infrastructure Minister Irakli Karseladze said on Tuesday.
The Roads Department of Georgia has won three disputes in the French international arbitration against construction companies contracted for work on the first and third sections of the Samtredia-Grigoleti and Zemo Osiauri-Chumateleti sections of the E-60 East-West Highway in the country, the Infrastructure Ministry announced on Friday.
A highway bridge under construction has damaged by a swollen river in the western Imereti region of Georgia, with no injuries reported in the accident, the Roads Department said on Wednesday.
Georgian Infrastructure Minister Irakli Karseladze on Monday said the Government had won ₾70 million ($26mln) in French international arbitration against an Italian construction company that had been contracted for work on a part of the Samtredia-Grigoleti section of the E-60 East-West Highway across the country.