The new bridge costing around US$540 million will be the third and most southern crossing between the two Islands that lie around 57kmn south of the Philippines capital Manila.
“It’s a project that will take three years to construct, so we expect completion in 2021,” said MPTC president Rodrigo Franco, according to a report in the Philippines Business World Online.
The 8.5km Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway will have a two-lane road, a main bridge, a viaduct at Cordova, an eight-lane toll plaza and a causeway. MPTC’s unit Cebu Cordova Link Expressway is in charge of the project.
Around 40,000 vehicles a day are expected to use the crossing.
Public Works and Highways Secretary Mark Villar reportedly said the fedral government is also looking to construct a fourth Mactan-Cebu bridge, which is subject of a feasibility study by the
MPTC is the tollways unit of Metro Pacific Investments Corporation, one of three Philippine units of Hong Kong-based First Pacific.
