The Ministry of Infrastructure and the World Bank have confirmed their intention to continue to cooperate in the road sector, the press service of the ministry has announced.
At a meeting with the World Bank’s regional director for Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine, Qimiao Fan, Infrastructure Minister Maksym Burbak stressed that the government would fulfill its obligations under the road construction projects that are currently being implemented with the support of the World Bank.
Fan expressed the World Bank’s readiness for the next project. As an example of further cooperation, he cited the financing of the work on the P-52 highway (which passes through the territories of the Poltava and Dnepropetrovsk regions).
The head of the State Road Agency (Ukravtodor), Oleksandr Malin, said that the Ukrainian side would prepare proposals to the World Bank on possible projects for development of the road sector.
As reported, Ukravtodor is implementing several projects in conjunction with the World Bank. They include repair of the Boryspil-Lubny section of the M-03 (Kiev-Kharkov-Dovzhansky) highway (reconstruction of approximately 120 kilometers of highway). The funds saved were also used to finance repairs on some sections between Lubny and Poltava. In addition, World Bank funds were used to finance elimination of places of high concentration of road accidents and two pedestrian bridges on the Kyiv-Odessa highway.
The project for repair of the Lubny-Poltava section of the Kiev-Kharkov-Dovzhansky highway (reconstruction of approximately 108 kilometers of highway), elimination of places of high concentration of road accidents, and creation of institutional capacity were also financed with World Bank funds.
