Thursday, 17 February 2005Bulgaria's deputy prime minister and transport minister Nikolay Vassilev has unveiled an ambitious "fast-track" infrastructure package worth almost EUR 2 B, the Financial Times reports.
The article adds that the projects should be awarded and contracts signed before parliamentary elections in June that could remove the government from office.
"The blueprint's priorities are a toll highway from Plovdiv in central Bulgaria to the border with Turkey; a second bridge across the Danube; build-operate-transfer deals for harbours and airports at Burgas and Varna on the Black Sea; and an upgrade of the rail network."
The prestigious newspaper notes that Nikolay Vassilev, aged 33, says he learned how to concentrate resources on a few big projects while working in London as an investment banker in the 1990s.
"He wants to make Bulgaria "the route of choice" for transit traffic carried by road, rail and on the Danube river between the European Union, Turkey and the Middle East." |
Thursday, 17 February 2005
Sofia News Agency
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