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New highway to improve connection between Bulgaria and North Macedonia

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The Road Infrastructure Agency has announced a public procurement for a project for the construction of the Gueshevo - Dupnitsa highway. The route will provide a comfortable connection between the Trans-European Transport Corridor "Orient/Eastern-Mediterranean", along which the Struma highway runs, and the border with the Republic of North Macedonia. 
The section is part of the main TEN-T network. 

The highway is expected to be about 62 km, BNR correspondent in Kyustendil Kiril Falin reported.



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