Azerbaijan Third Highway Project

road

Distance

100 km
new
– km
rehabilitated
100km
existing
– km

Cost

$379.9m
$379,870,000

operational

2019

Objective

"To contribute to a more efficient and safer Baku-Shamakhi and Yenikend-Shorsulu roads and higher quality road services as part of the general network upgrading to motorway standard, and to improve the management of the nascent motorway network." - World Bank

Description

The first component of the project is motorway improvement - upgrading a 100km section of the existing two lane M4 Baku-Shamakhi road into four-lane motorway and related road safety activities. The second component of the project is institutional development.

Finance

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$241.6m loan
The World Bank
Bank
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$138.3m investment
Government of Azerbaijan
Government

Governing authorities

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