Hummus-Sana
The branch of the General Company for Roads and Bridges in Homs during the first quarter of this year spent 2 billion and 834 million on the projects it is implementing.
Engineer Shahid Halas, the branch manager, stated in a statement to the SANA Economic Bulletin that the total plan for the branch amounted to 4 billion pounds, while the value of the production plan until September was 2 billion and 987 billion pounds. As for the works implemented until September, they amounted to 2.834 billion pounds and an implementation rate of 95 percent, indicating that the work completed It was distributed among the various sectors and a ground reservoir was established in the town of Al-Qabu at a cost of 47 million pounds, with the aim of feeding the area with drinking water, in addition to the implementation works of the treatment plant road in Hassia Industrial City at a cost of 575 million pounds.
He added: Work is still continuing in the project of crushing and relocating the demolished buildings in Homs in addition to the completion of the railway branch to transport the gravel to the coast at a cost of 133 million pounds, the sanitation project in the suburb of Al-Walid at a cost of 50 million, and the project to establish infrastructure in residential societies in the Al-Waer region at a value of 335 million pounds, indicating that The implemented projects also included the handicraft city project in the margins, at a cost of more than 182 million pounds, and the project of loading and transporting clinker, which is a raw material for the Rastan cement plant, at a cost of 46 million pounds.
Hallas pointed out that there are an important number of main, secondary and service road projects that the company is implementing, such as the maintenance project for the northern part of the Tartous-Homs road at a cost of 33 million pounds, the project for the rehabilitation of the Al-Asi and Al-Dar major bridges on the Homs diversion at a cost of 264 million pounds, and the project for the rehabilitation of the northern countryside roads - Talbiseh - Al-Rastan - Al-Ghantou - Qae Tower - Al-Zafarana at a cost of 267 million, maintenance works of the Zeebak-Arqaya highway, at a cost of 87 million, maintenance of the Homs-Al-Salamiyah road at a cost of 25 million pounds, and maintenance of the Homs-Damascus road at a cost of 14 million pounds.
Halas explained that a number of service roads have been completed for a number of important projects, such as a maintenance project for the Homs phosphate road at a cost of about 25 million, and a project to rehabilitate roads serving wells sites in the Bureij field at a cost of 260 million pounds and create a road for the Al-Zorah village school at a cost of 20 million pounds in addition to the project of establishing yards and sidewalks. West of Damascus Road in the savings area, at a cost of 60 million pounds.
Hallas indicated that there are difficulties encountered in the workflow, the most important of which is the small number of professional workers, the introduction of mechanisms, the unavailability of alternative parts and the high prices, pointing to the need to renew the engineering mechanisms and sort out young members as engineers and technical observers to the company.
Saba Khairbek,
SANA Economic Bulletin
