Milan 17 April 2014 - Salini Impregilo, leading a group of companies has won the bid for a 410 million euro contract to build a section of motorway in Slovakia with a share of 75%.

The contract for the Lietavská Lúčka - Višňové - Dubná Skala section, awarded by the Slovakian National Motorway Authority Národná diaľničná spoločnosť as, that manages the motorway system in Slovakia, consists in the construction of 13.4 km of the D1 motorway in northern Slovakia. The main works to be built include 5 overpasses for an overall length of 2.5 km, as well as a twin-tube tunnel 7.5 km in length.

This section of motorway is part of the no. 5 transportation corridor of the Trans-European Networks (TEN), connecting Bratislava with Uzhhorod in Ukraine, and is financed by the European Union through the European Investment Bank and the Slovakian government.

Work is scheduled to commence in the second half of this year, and will continue for roughly five and a half years.

The contract will allow Salini Impregilo to break ground in a new market, where an important transportation development programme is foreseen that will be financed by the European Union.

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