The A7 motorway (), also known as the PloieÃÂtiâÂÂSiret Motorway () or the Moldavia Motorway (), is a partially built motorway in Romania, that upon completion will link PloieÃÂti to the north-eastern part of the country, partly along the Pan-European Corridor IX. It will run along the route: BuzÃÂu, FocÃÂani, BacÃÂu, Roman, PaÃÂcani, and Suceava, connecting to Ukraine's M19 highway near Siret.
As of December 2025, several segments of the motorway are done, totaling to 211.9 km of opened motorway. All other sections of the motorway are in various stages of tendering and construction.
The PaÃÂcani â Siret section will be financed through EU funds, while the government wants the PloieÃÂti â PaÃÂcani section (excluding the BacÃÂu bypass) to be financed through the Romanian PNRR (short for Planul NaÃÂional de Redresare ÃÂi RezilienÃÂÃÂ, part of the Next Generation EU package).
Initially it was designed as a long motorway branching off the A3 motorway and passing through BuzÃÂu, FocÃÂani, and AlbiÃÂa, to the border with the Republic of Moldova. However, since 2014 plans in favor of a motorway past FocÃÂani were scrapped in favor of a motorway towards BacÃÂu, Suceava, and Siret termed A7. The motorway from FocÃÂani to AlbiÃÂa (155 km) will have a different route number assigned and, as of April 2014, it was no longer a priority in the master plan for the national motorway network.
In November 2024, Mykola Kutsak, the head of the Chernivtsi Oblast Council, stated that, in the future, the highway might expand to Chernivtsi and that it will have a strong positive impact on the region.
The first section, from PloieÃÂti to FocÃÂani (133 km), was proposed for a concession contract for tendering first half of 2013. No contract was signed, and the only section that has been tendered was the BacÃÂu bypass (30.6 km, of which 16.2 km of motorway) in August 2013, but built at only half profile. It was awarded for construction in November 2013, but the results of the tender were contested by some of the participants. Later in 2014, the whole motorway was redesigned as an expressway that would later be expanded to full motorway specifications.
On 30 May 2016, the construction works at BacÃÂu bypass started, and they were expected to be finished by 2022, but the contract with the Turkish company Eko ðnà Âaat ve Ticaret was terminated in April 2017, due to financial difficulties of the constructor.
In December 2017, the BacÃÂu bypass was reauctioned, this time as a full motorway section, and was awarded in December 2018, to the local based Spedition UMB â Tehnostrade joint venture, with the deadline in three years.
The BacÃÂu bypass opened on 2 December 2020, with minor works, mainly to the protective elements and to one exit, remaining yet to be completed. All remaining works on the bypass and its branches were completed by August 2021. All other sections are in the feasibility study and technical project phase, with the exception of the motorway segments between PloieÃÂti and FocÃÂani via BuzÃÂu. The PloieÃÂti - BuzÃÂu section (62 km) was auctioned for construction on 1 June 2021. On 1 February 2022, the BuzÃÂu bypass (4.6 km) and the FocÃÂani bypass (10.9 km) were auctioned for construction, followed by the segments BuzÃÂu - Râmnicu SÃÂrat (30.8 km) and Râmnicu SÃÂrat - FocÃÂani (36.1 km) on 8 February, same year, both on the BuzÃÂu - FocÃÂani section (82.4 km).
On 7 June 2022, the segment between Mizil and Pietroasele (PloieÃÂti - BuzÃÂu lot 2, 28.3 km) was awarded to the joint-venture Coni-Trace. 9 days later, on 16 June 2022, the segment between PloieÃÂti and Mizil (PloieÃÂti - BuzÃÂu lot 1, 21.0 km) was awarded to the joint-venture Impresa Pizzarotti-Retter. On 25 July 2022, the tender for the BacÃÂu - PaÃÂcani section (77.3 km) was launched, being divided into three lots: BacÃÂu - Roman (lot 1, 30.3 km), Roman - SÃÂbÃÂoani (lot 2, 18.9 km), and SÃÂbÃÂoani - PaÃÂcani (lot 3, 28.09 km). In August 2022, the tender for FocÃÂani - BacÃÂu launched as well, also divided into three lots: FocÃÂani - DomneÃÂti-Târg (lot 1, 35.6 km), DomneÃÂti-Târg - RÃÂcÃÂciuni (lot 2, 38.78 km), and RÃÂcÃÂciuni - BacÃÂu (lot 3, 21.52 km). On 6 September 2022, the BuzÃÂu bypass and the FocÃÂani bypass were awarded to the joint-venture SA&PE-Spedition UMB-Tehnostrade.
The route of the FocÃÂani bypass, which opened on 7 November 2024, is notorious for its so-called "hump", backed by the local authorities of the city of FocÃÂani on the grounds of an unapproved "general urban plan". The CNAIR tried unsuccessfully to convince the local authorities to support the variant of a straight route. Plans call that at RÃÂdÃÂuÃÂi (MiliÃÂÃÂuÃÂi) the road towards Siret becomes an expressway, however this section is yet to have a route number assigned.
As of August 2022, lots 1 and 2 of the PloieÃÂti - BuzÃÂu section are undergoing construction.
In the early hours of 21 September 2023, a gas explosion occurred near CÃÂlimÃÂneÃÂti in the Vrancea county, killing 4 and injuring 5 more. The explosion was caused where the motorway's construction site crossed a gas pipeline, which was initially believed to be at a depth of 1,8 meters, but had turned out to be much more shallow. Transgaz, the national gas distribution provider, blamed the construction company for performing unauthorized work in the area.