The Vidin-Calafat Bridge, also known as "New Europe", is the second bridge over the Danube River between Bulgaria and Romania and was built with joint funding from the European Commission, the European Investment Bank, the French Development Agency and KfW.
Construction: "New border combined bridge on the Danube River at Vidin-Calafat"
Location: Land plot, Antimovo village, km 796 on the river. Danube, Vidin Municipality
Client: Ministry of Transport, Information Technology and Communications
Consultant (construction supervision): Consortium "Ingerop-Bg/High-Point Rendel"
Builder: "FCC Construccion-branch Bulgaria" SA
Designer: CARLOS FERNANDEZ CASADO, S.L. - Spain together with the technical department of "FCC Construccion" SA
The constructions "New Border Combined Bridge on the Danube River at Vidin - Calafat" and "Attached Infrastructure on the Bulgarian Shore" were put into operation by the State Acceptance Commission on 13.06.2013
On 14 May 2009 the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure of Romania (MTI) announced the conclusion of the contract for the construction of the accessible infrastructure to the Calafat-Vidin bridge. The document, which announced the winner of the Spanish consortium led by the company AZVI, was signed on May 12 between the MTI, representing the final beneficiaries of the contract – CFR SA (Romanian State Railways) and the National Company for Highways and Roads (CENADER), and the consortium AZVI SA and Vimac SA (Seville).
The deal has a total estimated value of around 67 million euros excluding VAT, of which 33.8 million euros are grants from the EU through ISPA.
On 14.06.2013 at 16:00, the Danube Bridge Vidin - Calafat was officially opened at a ceremony. Among the official guests were Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski, Speaker of the National Assembly Mihail Mikov, Minister of Transport Danail Papazov, Prime Minister of Romania Victor Ponta, members of the governments, Commissioner Johannes Hahn, project participants. The opening was carried out by Patriarch Neophyte and Metropolitan Dometian, with a blessing of water and a ribbon cutting by workers.
The bridge was opened to traffic at 00:00 on 15.06.2013
Municipality of Vidin, Antimovo village 3776 Area :"Grinduri", str."96", №4
