Thursday, June 18, 2009

Completion of highway delayed

KUALA TERENGGANU: The completion of the East Coast Highway's 11th phase will be delayed by at least a year after one of its contractors pulled out of the project, Menteri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said said yesterday.
The contractor cited the increasing price of raw materials.

The project was originally slated for completion in 2011, but it has now been postponed until May 2012.

"The Public Works Department will now re-tender the project to other contractors," he said after chairing the weekly executive council meeting here. NST