Bechtel deals

[Ivo Skoric]

EU is looking into the no-bid award of highway building work to 
Bechtel in Romania. This revealed some interesting numbers:

>From Reuters, Feb. 4:
Bechtel is currently working on a $1 billion project to build a 74
mile (120-km) motorway in Croatia. It also completed a 875 mile 
(1,400
km) Trans-Turkish motorway at a cost of $1.4 billion in 1998. Both
contracts were awarded by the Croatian and Turkish governments,
respectively. 

How is it possible that building a 1km of highway in Croatia costs
screaming 8x more than building a 1km of highway in Turkey?
Unfortunately nobody seems to be looking in those contracts...

ivo
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