There might be a new public procurement for the construction of the Trakiya Highway if the executive companies do to comply with the schedule, Bulgaria's PM Boyko Borisov said.

"The Trakiya highway is built by nine Bulgarian companies and I have warned them all to follow the time schedule," Borisov said Sunday.

In his words, two of the companies, Faktor and Trace, are working a few months ahead of schedule and their parts of the highway will be launched in advance.

Borisov pointed out that the companies should work on time in order to prevent a failure in the financing of Trakiya highway through negligence.

The prime minister gave the construction companies one month deadline, after which they would be stopped and a new public procurement would be assigned if they fail to comply with the schedule.

"I will not let anyone play with the lives and health of the Bulgarian citizens. We have promised to launch the Trakiya Highway by 2012 and I would take it as a boycott if [the companies] do not complete it," Borisov said.

The construction of Trakiya Highway began in May with the trace from the city of Stara Zagora to the town of Nova Zagora, built by Unified Highway Trace.

At the beginning of August, the Greek Aktor started building the trace from Nova Zagora to the city of Yambol.

The construction of the longest trace from Yambol to Karnobat began in September when Moststroy had experienced financial difficulties. Then, Trakiya IV promises to finish ahead of schedule the trace and make it ready for use in 2012, even though the deadline in the contract is 2013. 

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