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Shafaq News- Damascus
Syria is moving ahead with plans to rehabilitate several
major highways to modernize its network and strengthen domestic and
cross-border connectivity, the head of the General Establishment for Road
Transport said on Sunday.
Director General Moaz Najjar said the projects will
facilitate the movement of goods and agricultural and industrial products
between Syrian provinces, reduce obstacles to land transport, and lower
shipping costs. He added that upgrading the road corridors will increase
transit traffic with neighboring countries, boosting regional and domestic
trade while enhancing competitiveness.
Najjar said Jordan, Turkiye, Iraq, and the Gulf States will
be among the main regional beneficiaries of the scheme, noting that the
Nassib-Aleppo highway forms part of the international M45 corridor linking the
Jordanian and Turkish borders.
According to Najjar, work on the Nassib-Damascus highway is
expected to take about 400 days, while work on the Damascus-Homs, Homs-Aleppo,
and Saraqib-Idlib road plan is projected to last around 500 days each. The
rehabilitation and expansion of the Damascus-Palmyra and Palmyra-Deir ez-Zor
highways is expected to take approximately 900 days.
Regarding commercial transport routes, he pointed out that
the General Establishment for Road Transport is updating the economic
feasibility studies for the North-South and East-West route projects ahead of
their implementation as toll roads under the build-operate-transfer (BOT)
model, aiming to improve commercial transport infrastructure and enhance
freight movement across Syria.