A 75-million euro project has been entrusted to Spanish FCC

11.10.2007

Currently, FCC is constructing the Vidin-Kalafat Bridge, which will bind Bulgaria and Romania. The investment is estimated at 116 million euro. Bulgaria's Мinistry of Transport has assigned the construction of a railroad and highway on the Vidin-Kalafat Bridge. The project will cost 75.1 million euro and will embrace:
• building a 16.3-km-long railway with individual electricity provide and auxiliary illumination equipment, creating control, signage and telecommunication systems, setting up a new international station of craft, rehabilitating the existing one which is for passengers and erecting three new adjoining edifices;
• building a 6-kilometre-long highway with two lanes in each direction and four junctions, and the building of eight bridges overpassing the railroad and highway.
Currently, FCC is constructing the Vidin-Kalafat Bridge, which will connect Bulgaria and Romania. The investment is calcullated at 116 million euro. The so-called Danube II Bridge, which is to get a part of the Corridor IV (Dresden- Istanbul), will be 1 971 m long. It was designed jointly by specialists from Fernandez Casado S.L. and the Technical Service department of FCC Construction.
FCC, through its Austrian affiliate Alpine, has recently won another project to develop two purification plants in the town of Sevlievo and Bourgas' Meden Rudnik district. The work will embrace design, construction, providing the necessary equipment, launching the installations and staff training. The amount of the investment will exceed 15 million euro.
The Sevlievo institution will serve 53 300 people residing in the town and nearby municipalities. The one in Bourgas, situated on the coastline, will purify the residual water of 56 800 citizens

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