The Bar-Boljare Highway Project is a key infrastructure project led by the Ministry of Transportation and Maritime Affairs of Montenegro. It aims at improving the connections within the country and also between Montenegro and the rest of Europe to boost the country’s economy and tourism.

The project, built by China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC), embodies a new successful example of the cooperation between China and Eastern Europe. The new 2×2-way highway spans over 40 km. It is built in challenging terrains and yet satisfies both EU & Montenegro standards of road infrastructure. Its schedule is ambitious too: both roads and viaducts should be built in under 4 years.

For the Bar-Boljare Highway Project, Dextra supplied its Bartec rebar coupler solution, used for the splicing of rebar in the piles of the four viaducts. Dextra Bartec splicing solution was chosen on that project for its compliance with ISO 15835 S2, which defines rebar couplers and reinforcements to be resistant to violent earthquake conditions. A total of 230,000 Bartec rebar couplers have been supplied to CRBC.