New Europe Bridge (Vidin–Calafat)
Extradosed road-rail bridge over the Danube between Calafat (Romania) and Vidin (Bulgaria), also known as Danube Bridge 2. The second bridge on the shared Romanian–Bulgarian section of the Danube, it carries four road lanes, one railway track and a bicycle/pedestrian path, and is part of Pan-European Corridor IV and European route E79. Built by the Spanish company FCC Construcción.
- Total length
- 2 km
- Open today
- 2 km
- Sections
- 1
- Cost on record
- €188.448M
- 1 of 1 sections carry a comparable figure
Restated into EUR at 2025 prices.
Sections
| Sections | Status | Length | Timeline | Cost | Funding | Contractors | Contract terms |
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| Main bridge Combined road-rail bridge Vidin–Calafat; builder FCC Construcción, designer Fernández Casado; ISPA/PHARE support plus a €50M EIB credit (December 2000) | Opened | 2 km |
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| 38 mo total · Contract value €99.956M |
Contractor roles are as recorded in the award. Only builders count toward the delivery rankings.
Funding
- European Union2 km1 section
- Co-financed through the EU ISPA pre-accession instrument; design study financed by the PHARE programme
- Loan2 km1 section
- European Investment Bank credit loan of €50 million granted in December 2000
A section that lists two sources counts its full length under each: the data records which sources paid, not what share each one carried.
Related projects
- HighwaysA1 Bucharest–Nădlac MotorwaySame contractor: FCC Construcción
- HighwaysA4 motorway (Constanța bypass)Same contractor: FCC Construcción
- HighwaysA8 Târgu Mureș–Iași–Ungheni Motorway (Unirii)Same contractor: FCC Construcción
- BridgesBasarab Overpass, BucharestSame contractor: FCC Construcción
- RailwaysBucharest Metro Line M5 (Drumul Taberei)Same contractor: FCC Construcción
- RailwaysFrontieră – Curtici – Simeria railway rehabilitation (Corridor IV)Same contractor: FCC Construcción
Corridors
The designations this project is recorded under. Both schemes are kept: the Pan-European corridors are how these projects were described when they were planned, and TEN-T is what EU money is allocated on today.
- Pan-European Corridor IVPan-European