The Ukrainian construction company Altkom will construct a two-way two-lane road bridge across the Garabogazgol bay along the Turkmenbashi–Garabogaz–Kazakhstan border highway.
President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov on Thursday signed the Resolution authorizing the signing of the bridge construction contract between the State Agency for Management of Road Construction and Altkom, the official Turkmen media reports.
The Ukrainian construction company will also build the roads leading to the bridge.
The document prescribes the start of construction work in July 2022 and commissioning of the road bridge and its connecting roads with full readiness for operation in June 2024.
The new bridge is expected to become an important engineering structure of the Turkmenistan-Kazakhstan international transport route, and the road leading to it will is planned to be docked with the Ashgabat-Turkmenbashi highway.
