The Romanian city will get improvements to 15km of roads and officially joins the Green City programme of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development - EBRD.
Norwegian Public Roads Administration director Ingrid Dahl Hovland wants to ensure that lessons learned regarding wooden bridge failures are integrated into maintenance strategies.
The contract was awarded to local engineering firm GBS-Infrastructure Construction in Plovdiv, a subsidiary of the Bulgarian civil engineering group Glavbolgarstroy.