The penultimate stretch of the Via Baltica highway between the southern Lithuanian town of Marijampole and the Polish border is opening to traffic on Friday after some upgrades.
The Lithuanian Transport Ministry has said that the 16-km stretch near Marijampole “is the lonest and most technologically challenging part of the project. We managed to complete the modernisation in just over one year’s time.”
Work on the stretch began in June 2023 and was carried out by the Fegda and Tilsta companies of the Fegda Group. The contract was worth EUR 223.6 million (including VAT).
The final 12-kilometre stretch to the Polish border is being upgraded by Kauno Tiltai, which is a leading Lithuanian road and bridge company. That contract is worth EUR 155 million (not including VAT). The work began this past summer.
Via Baltica is a trans-European highway that runs from Warsaw to Tallinn along a span of 970 kilometres. 269 of these are in Lithuania.
Source: BNS
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