Azerbaijan: Ilham Aliyev allocates funding for construction of road in Oghuz

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed an order to provide funds for the construction of Bujag-Mukhas-Bash Dashagil road in Oghuz region. Under the presidential order, the Azerbaijan Highway State Agency is allocated 9.4 million manats for the construction of the road connecting four residential areas with a total population of 4,000 people. (AzerNews/Business World Magazine)

Estonia: Saaremaa bridge advocates meet with Chinese business executives

Representatives of the Chinese state-owned construction company China Construction Communication Engineering Group visited the island of Muhu, where they were familiarized with the plans of a local group of businessmen to build a bridge between Muhu and Saaremaa and the Estonian mainland. The representatives affirmed their company’s readiness to participate in the bridge project. Former…

Lithuania: tender to rebuild Renge section announced

Lithuania’s state-run railway company Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways) has called a tender to rebuild the Mazeikiai-Renge railway section dismantled a decade ago. The section was used by the Mazeikiai-based oil processing company Orlen Lietuva, owned by Poland’s Orlen, to transport its oil products to Latvia. According to information on Lithuania’s central public procurement website, the…

Belarus: progress on building NPP good

The completion rate of the first unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant stands at 80%, and that of the second unit – 60%, Mikhail Filimonov, Director General of the state enterprise Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant, declared. “The readiness of the Belarusian nuclear power plant is reflected by an integrated indicator resulting from a complicated…

Estonia: construction volume up in Q2 2018

According to Statistics Estonia, the total domestic and international production of Estonian construction enterprises increased by 20% in the second quarter of 2018. Taking into account only the Estonian construction market, construction volume increased by 22%. The production value of construction enterprises amounted to EUR 767 million, of which the production value of building construction…