As Infrastructure, Transport and Networks Minister Michalis Chryssohoidis has stated on Monday, the auction of the 75klm, 340-million-euro highway between Patras and Pyrgos in western Peloponnese will take place in the coming days.
The Patras-Pyrgos section, which is expected to be concluded within two years from its auction date, was excluded from the Olympia Odos motorway. The Minister said that the tender of the 30klm, 130-million-euro section linking Kalo Nero with Tsakona is expected to be completed by the end of the year.

The construction of the two sections will be funded from the coming programming period 2014-2020.

According to the minister, 16 worksites are operating at the country’s four major highways, where about 4,000 workers are employed, while the number of worksites in operation will have increased by the end of the year, bringing the total number of jobs to 8,000.

Based on daata provided by the ministry, the completion percentage of works at the Central Greece has reached 26.7 percent, followed by Ionia Odos and the Athens-Lamia section where the percentage has reached 30.25 percent, Olympia Odos with 48 percent and the highway Aegean where the project’s completion percentage has reached 77 percent. Since December 2013, when an agreement was reached between the State, the concessioners, the constructors and the banks on the resumption of works at the four motorways, the financial contribution and compensations that the government has paid have amounted to 898 million euros.