On April 26, 2024, a new 9-kilometer bypass highway was opened on the E60 international highway F4 Section, near the city of Zestafoni, which includes 4 tunnels and 15 bridges. The works were carried out for several years by “Guizhou Highway Engineering Group, co.” Georgian branch.

2024年4月26日，靠近格鲁吉亚泽斯塔波尼市的E60高速公路F4标举行了9公里通车仪式。E60高速F4标全长14.7公里，其中通车的9公里包括4个隧道、15座桥梁，项目由贵州公路集团格鲁吉亚分公司承建。

Irakli Kobakhidze, the Prime Minister of Georgia 格鲁吉亚总理伊拉克利·科巴希泽（图片由作者提供）

The Zestafoni bypass is an important junction on the E60 highway, because in recent years the city could not hear traffic flows and traffic jams were often created, and now it takes only 5-6 minutes to pass the existing new highway.

泽斯塔波尼段是格鲁吉亚E60高速的重要路段，通车后将很大程度缓解泽斯塔波尼市现有的交通压力。现在，大家开车只需要五六分钟时间就能通过这一路段。

Irakli Karseladze, the minister of the Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia 格鲁吉亚区域发展和基础设施部部长伊拉克利·卡瑟拉泽（图片由作者提供）

The construction works were commissioned by the Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia, and the project was financially supported by the Asian Development Bank.

工程由格鲁吉亚区域发展和基础设施部委托进行，并获得了亚洲开发银行的财政支持。

Representative from China 中方参加仪式的代表（图片由作者提供）

At first glance, the 9-kilometer road should not have been very difficult and full of challenges, although the Caucasus is a geologically quite complex region. The E60, F4 section covers only 14.7 kilometers, although this short section includes qualitatively different rocks and slopes. The drilling and blasting works of breccias and tuff-breccias, where tunnel portals and bridge piers were arranged, made the work difficult to produce road sections in the vicinity of the population, which are always full of challenges and require a careful and empathetic attitude, so that the large infrastructure project does not cause the population to disturb the calm pace of life and does not miss sustainable development plans.

说实话，尽管这次通车的路段只有9公里，但建设过程中需要克服高加索地区非常复杂的地质环境问题。E60高速F4标全长14.7公里，短短的一段路，要解决大量岩体和陡坡带来的工程性挑战。隧道和桥墩建设时，既要完成角砾岩和凝灰岩角砾岩的钻爆，又要降低对附近居民日常生活的影响，使得整个项目建设难度远高于其他标段。工程期间，建设团队在克服地质困难的同时，还要尽可能地避免对周边居民正常生活的影响，从而让项目建设适应可持续发展的目标要求。

E60 Highway F4 Project E60高速F4标（图片由作者提供）

From the Sustainable Development Goals and to comply with international construction standards, noise, dust and vibration were actually monitored daily to plan each subsequent work based on previous experience.

根据可持续发展目标和国际工程建设标准，建设团队需要每日监控项目产生的噪音、尘土、震动三个指标，从而有利于规划工程下一阶段的施工任务。

E60 Highway F4 Project E60高速F4标（图片由作者提供）

In the end, the company successfully opened the 9-kilometer section of the fourth lot, the opening ceremony was attended by the Prime Minister of the country, the first persons of the ministries and representatives of the diplomatic agency. The result of almost 4 years of work has already been tangible, and the entire Caucasus transport sector can continue to use the E60 highway, which is the first successful project of Guizhou Highway Engineering Group in the Caucasus region.

总之，贵州公路集团承建的E60高速F4标有9公里顺利通车了！格鲁吉亚总理，各个部门的负责人以及外交机构代表都出席了通车仪式。近4年的努力终于结出了果实，这条链接高加索地区的交通要道，成为了贵州公路集团在高加索地区海外工程的首个成功范例。

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