Investment boom in road infrastructure. Started construction of two new highways continue construction of Demir Kapija – Smokvica, modernized local and regional roads. The total investment is heavy waving over one billion euro. Construction companies will have their hands full.
“A large volume of work, heavy responsibility of Macedonian companies, we will have to engage in providing and upgrading of existing staff, but also in the creation of new technical and professional staff that will have to carry the whole thing,” says for MRT Sead Kochan, Head of Construction Chamber at the Union of Chambers of Commerce.
The highways Miladinovci – Shtip and Kichevo-Ohrid are built with Chinese money, a loan that Macedonia should repay in a period of 20 years. At the same time, we work on Corridor 10. According to estimates of experts, the construction of highways will be engaged 2000 people: building workers, engineers, designers, architects, building inspectors.
“I fear that the vacuum created in engineering, vacuum of serious investments in the last 20 years is reflected in the fact that we are now perhaps have lack of engineering staff that is sufficiently trained for anything like as serious infrastructure projects,” said in the statement for public service Goran Markovski, professor at the Faculty for Civil Engineering.
Better communication, economic development, and safer traffic are the three key factors that citizens will receive from the construction of highways. Highway Kichevo – Ohrid will seriously revive the economy in this region.
“It would mean that for two hours companies that are nearby will be able to bring in or to exported materials through the port in Durres. Also for potential investors this would be a good momentum,” said Igor Sokoleski president of the Chamber of Commerce – Kichevo.
Currently, is ongoing the construction of section Demir Kapija- Smokvica, two days ago started the construction of the highway Skopje – Shtip, yesterday Kichevo – Ohrid, which means that Macedonia will get new 132 kilometers highway.
