6m euros paid by Bechtel to date

US Bechtel Corp, the constructor of the Transilvania Highway, announced on Wednesday it had already paid out 6.6 million euros to subcontractors and suppliers involved in the project. The 44 subcontractors being used by Bechtel have already received 2.4 million euros, while orders placed with the over 590 suppliers amounted to 4.2 million euros. “At the moment, the overwhelming majority of subcontractors are Romanian,” said Drew Slaton, community relation manager for Section 2 of the Transilvania Highway project. He added that the American company wanted to have “as much Romanian content in the project as possible.” To date, over 1,000 people have been hired for the project, with 486 working on section 2 of the highway (Targu-Mures to Cluj), 123 of which are employed by Bechtel’s subcontractors. ZF