Danube Bridge II
Business: 30 January 2007, Tuesday.
Spain's Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas SA will design and build a bridge over the Danube that will join Bulgaria and Romania.
The company signed Tuesday a EUR 100 M contract to this effect at Bulgaria's Transport Ministry. It covers a period of 50 months plus a grace period of 12 months.
The bridge is to link the Bulgarian Danube port of Vidin to the Romanian city of Calafat by road and rail. It is a key element of a European transport corridor from the German city of Dresden to Istanbul in Turkey.
The total length of the road stretch is set at 1440 km and 2480 km of railways. After it is finished, the bridge should have two road lanes in each direction and one railway line.
The contract for supervising the project, landed by Ingerop Company, France, is for a period of 51 months plus a grace period of 12 months.
The project will cost EUR 236 M to be completed.
Funding came from ISPA programs of the EU, from the European Investment Bank and other international financial institutions. Some national input is also to be found in the financing of the bridge.
Bulgaria and Romania, which both joined the European Union on January 1, signed an agreement to build the Vidin-Calafat Bridge in 2000, but various bureaucratic obstacles delayed the project.
At the moment, the only bridge on the 610km section of the Danube that forms the Bulgarian-Romanian border links Ruse in Bulgaria and Giurgiu in Romania by road and rail.
Bulgaria Signs Danube Bridge II Deal
Business: 30 January 2007, Tuesday.
Bulgaria's Transport Ministry will sign Tuesday the contracts to design and build a bridge over the Danube that will join Bulgaria and Romania.
The bridge is to link the Bulgarian Danube port of Vidin to the Romanian city of Calafat by road and rail. It is a key element of a European transport corridor from the German city of Dresden to Istanbul in Turkey.
The total length of the road stretch is set at 1440 km and 2480 km of railways. After it is finished, the bridge should have two road lanes in each direction and one railway line.
The contract for supervising the project is for a period of 51 months plus a grace period of 12 months.
The contract for design and construction works is valid for 50 months plus a grace period of 12 months.
The project will cost EUR 236 M to be completed.
Funding came from ISPA programs of the EU, from the European Investment Bank and other international financial institutions. Some national input is also to be found in the financing of the bridge.
Bulgaria and Romania, which both joined the European Union on January 1st, signed an agreement to build the Vidin-Calafat Bridge in 2000, but various bureaucratic obstacles delayed the project.
At the moment, the only bridge on the 610km section of the Danube that forms the Bulgarian-Romanian border links Ruse in Bulgaria and Giurgiu in Romania by road and rail.