Bulgaria’s Parliament has approved at second reading the founding of a State Company “Strategic Infrastructure Projects”, a mega-structure to be in charge of the construction of three largely neglected highway projects. The new body created with adopted amendments to the Roads Act will seek to accelerate the construction of “strategic infrastructure projects”, namely the Struma Highway (running from Sofia to the border with Greece; expected completion date – 2014), the Hemus Highway (running from Sofia to Varna through Northern Bulgaria; expected completion date unknown), or the Cherno More (i.e. Black Sea) Highway (running between Varna and Burgas on the Black Sea coast; expected completion date unknown). Read More
