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Written by Lorena
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Saturday, 06 September 2008 |
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The two Japanese contractors of the Bases Conversion Development Authority have agreed to buid the four interchanges on the Pampanga and Clark Freeport sides of the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway and finish these by mid 2009. The Florida Blanca and Porac interchanges will be built by the Kajima Corp., Obayashi Corp., JFE Engineering Corp. and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (KOSM), the builder of 50.5 km portion. The Clark, North and South interchanges will be done by the Hazama Taisei Nippon Steel (HTIV) Joint Venture, which completed the 43.27 km Clark-Tarlac segment. Abayd, BCDA President and Executive order said that the construction of the interchanges would be funded by the P6.1 billion supplemented loan obtained by the BCDA from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation. JBIC provided P21 billion loan to build SCTEX, the country’s newest and longest toll road. The construction have started for the Clark North, including its 3.8 km Panday Pina Road leading straight to the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport, the country’s port of entry for the open skies regime of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations starting December this year. The launching of the project brings to vision of President Arroyo to make Subic and Clark into an international logistics and service hub. [via] |
