Inter-kop starts construction of metro station in Kazakhstan

The construction company Inter-kop from Sabac announced today that it had started building a EUR 8.9 million metro station called "Moscow" in the city of Almaty, Kazakhstan.

As it was announced, preparation works and earth digging will be finished by end-September in order to kick off work on reinforced concrete structure in October. The main work will commence November 1st, and the value of agreed works in this year will amount to between 1.5 and 2 million euros. The plan is to completely finish the metro station by October 2013.

Workers request to be paid

Certain number of workers of the Sabac-based construction company Inter-kop stopped working today and protested in front of the company's administrative building requesting to be paid late salaries, Beta news agency writes.

The workers who protested, about 100 of them, said that Inter-kop owed its employees four monthly salaries.