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A red crane lifting a girder segment next to a massive concrete abutment at the Prut river bridge construction site near Ungheni; to the right, a group in high-visibility vests inspects the works.
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A8 motorway contract to Ungheni suspended by court: 3.5 billion lei and 5 km on the Moldovan side, blocked

The Bucharest Court of Appeal suspended on August 5 the contract for the DN24–Ungheni Border section of the A8 motorway. Construction cannot begin until the disputes are resolved, with a hearing set for September 30. The approximately 5-km segment in the Republic of Moldova — from the bridge to the Ungheni bypass — is caught in the same ruling.

Ion Calmis·31 August 2026· NewsWHAT'S AT STAKE
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Official map of section 4 of the A8 motorway: the blue route from DN24 (Iași) to the customs point, through Victoria, Aroneanu and Golăiești, up to the edge of the Republic of Moldova; the bridge over the Prut at Ungheni marked in magenta.
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The A8 motorway reaches the Prut and crosses to our bank: Moldova's first motorway kilometres, paid for by Romania

On 2 July, in Bucharest, the contract was signed for the final section of the “Union” Motorway (A8) — the 15.5 km between Iași and the Prut, but also, for the first time, 4.7 km of motorway on the territory of the Republic of Moldova, from the future bridge at Ungheni to the town's bypass. The works on the Moldovan bank, worth around 64 million euros, are fully covered by the Romanian side, through the European SAFE programme. It is the missing piece in the file of the Ungheni bridge — but the motorway stops at Ungheni, not at Chișinău, and the timeline remains long.

Ion Calmis·2 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE