The Italian company will build two bridges over the Lempa River, with a total cost of $24.85 million.
These bridges are part of the CLN highway (“Carretera Lngitudinal del Norte”), and will be located in “Nuevo Edén de San Juan” and in “Nombre de Jesús”.
Works are scheduled to begin on the third week of March.
The bridge in “Nuevo Edén de San Juan” will be 330 meters long, and will be ready by March 2012.
The received bids for construction of the second stretch of the Northern Longitudinal Highway in El Salvador will be analyzed both technically and economically.
Some of the companies involved are "Asocio Temporal Inversiones OMNI (Multipav)", "Asocio CPK – Simán", "Constructora MECO", "Constructora Santa Fe Ltda", "Constructora Linares" and "Equipos de Construcción".
Fomilienio expects to tender the first section of the Northern Longitudinal Road in the country’s eastern half.
Specifically, the section that is being designed for tender is the one that runs from Nuevo Edén de San Juan to Gotera.
In an article in laprensagrafica.com, José Ángel Quirós, executive director of Fomilenio, also indicated that the 7 kilometers from Santa Rosa to Guachipelín Matazano will be tendered at the end of May, and that later this year, it expects to launch and award the 2 bridges over the Lempa River: “The 150 meter long En Nombre de Jesús, Sensuntepeque bridge, and the 250 meter long Nuevo Edén de San Juan bridge, in San Miguel."
In two weeks, the third installment (6.25 kms) of the Longitudinal Road North, from Matazano to Santa Rosa Guachipilín, will be tendered.
In addition to the 6.25 km section to be opened between El Matazano to Santa Rosa Guachipilín, the tender will include the improvement of 13.29 kms of road between Matazano and Nueva Concepción and the improvement of the 1.73 km access road to Santa Rosa Guachipilín."
The consortium of Constructora MECO, SBI International, Santa Fe-CODOCSA, Astaldi, Consorcio Vial Fomilenio y Corporación M&S presented the proposals for the North Longitudinal construction project.
Elsalvador.com reports: “The proposals included a range of $29 million to $40 million for asphalt concrete; meanwhile, in the case of hydraulic concrete, the proposals were from more than $35 million to a little more than $44 million, as was recorded in the meeting minutes signed by the representatives of Fomilenio and participating construction companies.