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Second Orinoco River Bridge Project

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PROJECT OVERVIEW

This project involved the construction a mixed road/rail 3,200 m long, 22.4 m wide bridge over the Orinoco River in Venezuela.  It will be a  three-towered stayed bridge that will be 147m above the river.  It has two 360 m main spans, four lanes of traffic, and a railroad bed down the middle. The bridge is being built by Odebrecht.

The state-owned Venezuelan conglomerate Venezuelan Guayana Corporation (CVG) and the Chilean wood processing company Terranova agreed upon the joint construction of a new bridge over the river Orinoco in Venezuela. Simultaneously, both firms signed a contract about the cooperative building of a port on the northern banks of the Orinoco. Terranova will benefit from the new port and the bridge as they will make redundant the prevailing necessity to transport Terranova’s products to the nearest port 350 km away. 

Brazil's National Development Bank (BNDES) is providing a $384 million, 12-year loan to finance the building of a bridge over the Orinoco river in southeastern Venezuela, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said. This  bridge is expected to be completed in four years at a cost of $500 million.

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