The European Investment Bank (EIB) has approved two consortia formed by Freyssinet&cie and Moststroi and by Avtomagistrali Cherno More and Inzhstroiinzhenering as the contractors for the rehabilitation of sections of the Trakia and Hemus motorways in Bulgaria, according to the Bulgarian & Balkan Transport News International. The road sections are part of the 690km of motorways and priority roads that will be reconstructed under the Transit Roads 3 Programme co-financed by the EIB and the European programme ISPA. Freyssinet&cie and Moststroi will implement a 15-month programme for the construction of two bridges on the Trakia Motorway, while the other consortium will repair 74.9km of the Hemus Motorway (Varna-Burgas, Varna-Obrochiste and Biala-Obzor) over a 15-month period.