Engineering and construction company Skanska has been awarded a SEK453m ($70.12m) contract by the Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) to build the last section of the E6 highway in the southwest part of the country.

The E6 highway, which has length of length 3,140km, is the main north-south road in Norway and the west coast of Sweden, connecting the Öresund, Gothenburg and Oslo regions.

Skanska will complete the last 7.5km section of the highway, which connects Pålen and Tanumshede on the Swedish west coast.

Construction is expected to begin immediately and the road will be made accessible to traffic in the summer of 2015.

Skanska was recently awarded a two-year design and construction contract, in partnership with Balfour Beatty, to upgrade sections of the M25 London orbital motorway for the UK’s Highways Agency.

"Construction is expected to begin immediately and the road will be made accessible to traffic in the summer of 2015."

Under the deal, a 50/50 construction JV comprising Skanska and Balfour Beatty will construct the infrastructure to support permanent four-lane running on 46km of the M25 in two sections between junctions 5 to 7 and 23 to 27 via Kent, Surrey, Essex and Hertfordshire.

Skanska is a leading project development company based in Stockholm, Sweden, which is involved in construction and development of commercial and residential projects, as well as public-private partnerships.

The company has 53,000 employees in selected home markets in Europe, in the US and Latin America, and it reported sales of SEK123bn ($22.18bn) in 2011.