Tender for bridge over Danube in Braila launched after 27 years

Romania’s National Roads Company (CNAIR) has launched the tender for the highest bridge over Danube, connecting the Dobrogea region to the rest of the country. The project is described as the “most complex infrastructure work in the last 27 years”. The bridge could become operational in the next five-six years, and will be mostly used for internal routes, but also for travels to or from Poland, Ukraine or Russia. At present, if people in the Braila area want to cross from one of Danube’s shore to the other they need to take the ferry or take a detour of more than 100 kilometers to get to the bridge at Giurgeni-Vadu Oii. The project, which is worth RON 2 billion (EUR 442 million), will be financed with EU funds. It will have a total length of 23.4 km and will include two sections, namely the main road Braila - Jijila, with a length of over 19 km, and the connection road DN22 Smardan - Maci, with a length of 4.3 km. The suspended bridge over the Danube will have a length of 1,900 m, plus two side openings, one on the shore to Braila and one on the shore to Tulcea. It will be the highest bridge over the Danube in Romania. The project has been included in several “strategic projects” in the last 27 years, but nothing came out of it. editor@romania-insider.com