This is a demanding project, both in terms of civil engineering as well as organisation, as the motorway is being built simultaneously with a regional road that will replace the existing main road over which the motorway will be built.  The completion of that motorway section, planned for 2018, will be a major asset, mostly for local residents who face large traffic loads during tourist season.  It involves the last missing 13 km section on the 2,300-kilometre-long motorway between Hamburg and Thessaloniki.

One of many structures on the 13 km section is also a 105-metre long the Log tunnel.