Highway to new airport to commission in 2018

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A Project on Construction of 32 km highway connecting the capital city to the New Ulaanbaatar International Airport (NUBIA) is at the development stage. The highway is designed to be 32.5 meter wide with 6 rows. The road is projected to have four sections. For the first section of 22.5 km, a Chinese railroad construction company has been selected as the project executor which established a Lump Sum Turnkey (LSTK) contract with the government in September of 2015, said G.Anand, official from the Ministry of Road and Transport Development. In accordance with the contract, the road is to be commissioned within 34 months, by July 18 of 2018. The project is now providing jobs for more than 400 workers, supervised and monitored by 12 Mongolian and 6 Chinese engineers, he added.