Here is when the highway will be carried out in part of northern Macedonia

Instead of this spring, as warned, the latest announcement is that the first two kilometers of the Skopje-Blace highway will start building during the autumn.

“Afat is the largest in international tenders on the highway part, I think it's between 45 and 60 days, so, by September, if all procedures end up as it should be in the tender part, it will have to start”, said Goran Sugarevski, minister of Transport and Links.

The remaining 10-and-a-half miles of the highway, if the project is completed by the end of the year, will start to build in the next construction season.

“I don't want to speculate with the deadlines, our expectations are somewhere in October-November to complete the project, so after that, we will immediately go with the tender”, Goran Sugarevski said.

Deputy Prime Minister Bujar Osmani promised last summer that construction of the Skopje-Blace highway would begin this spring, which is a decade's demand from the business community.

According to warnings from the Government, the plan is for the construction of this section to take place in two phases.

The first phase from the Blace border crossing to the connecting road towards Blace, with a length of about two kilometers long and must be built in 18 months.

The second section, up to Skopje, is 10.5km long, construction should begin next year and last about 36 months.

The expectations are for this highway to be put to use in 2023. The highway, which will have four tunnels and eight bridges, costs about 110m euros. /AlsatM/