Astaldi signs 5 bln dollar contract for Turkish motorway
(AGI) Rome, June 8 - Astaldi, one of Italy's leadingconstruction firms, signed a 5 billion dollar financingcontract for the Gebze-Orhangazi-Izmir motorway in Turkey. Theproject, which will include the world's fourth-longestsuspension bridge, entails a comprehensive investment of 6.4billion dollars and is one of the major infrastructural workscurrently underway the world over. The financing will be usedto complete the last 301 km-section connecting Bursa and Izmirand refinance the sections already under construction for theGebze-Orhangazi-Bursa connection. The contract completes thefinancing process for the entire project, rebalancing theproject's debt-equity ratio to 78/22 from