Construction on the second bridge across the Danube river between Bulgaria and Romania, will start in April this year, the transport minister Petar Moiutafchiev said at a news conference, held on February 25, reported Focus news agency.
Completion is due in 2010.
The council on coordination, control and implementation of infrastructure projects of national significance, attended by the Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev, has already started.
Spanish company FCC (Fomento de Construcciones and Contratas) has won the tender to develop the project that would link Vidin in Bulgaria to Calafat in Romania and also the road and rail infrastructure on the Bulgarian side. The firm would be paid 162 million euro for the works, while the total costs of the project, including construction on the Romanian side, was estimated at 236 million euro.
When completed, Danube Bridge 2 would become a part of European Transport Corridor IV between Dresden in Germany and Istanbul in Turkey.
