Bulgaria, Romania to erect new Danube bridge

The Bulgarian PM made the symbolic first sod for the construction of Danube Bridge II at Vidin-Kalafat on Sunday.

Izvor: Xinhua

Monday, 14.05.2007.

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Bulgaria, Romania to erect new Danube bridge

According to the prime minister, the new infrastructure project is one of the biggest in the next years in Bulgaria.

The bridge is important not only for Bulgaria and Romania, but also for the European Union (EU), as it is definitely a bridge of the reunion of the European continent, said the prime minister.

The project costs EUR 236mn and is supported financially by the EU Phare and ISPA programs, the European Investment Bank, the Frankfurt-based development bank KfW and Agence Francaise de Developpement Development (AFD), and co-financed by Bulgaria's Exchequer.

The new bridge will be located at the 796th km of the Danube river, linking Bulgaria's Vidin and Romania's Kalafat. The total length of the bridge is 1,971 meters. It will have four road lanes and a railway track.

The Spanish FCC company won the bid as the designer and contractor of part of the main bridge. The bridge is scheduled to be constructed within 38 months.

Currently, Bulgaria and Romania are connected by a Danube bridge built in 1954, which is located in the eastern part of the border of the two countries.

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