Skip to main content

Bidding strong for New York bridge link

Bidding is strong for the 30 year concession deal covering the Goethals Bridge linking New York and New Jersey. The contract will include financing, construction and management of the bridge and changes to the road alignment in a deal worth US$1.3 billion.
February 10, 2012 Read time: 1 min
RSSBidding is strong for the 30 year concession deal covering the Goethals Bridge linking New York and New Jersey. The contract will include financing, construction and management of the bridge and changes to the road alignment in a deal worth US$1.3 billion. The bids are being evaluated by the 2422 Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Interest is strong, partly because this tolled link carries some 30 million vehicles/year. Firms tendering include the NYNJ Link Partnership (comprising 981 Hochtief, Kiewit, 2378 Macquarie, 1374 Parsons Transportation Group and 1375 Weeks Marine); China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC), 2296 Skanska of Sweden and IHI of Japan. 4914 FCC is submitting a bid with 1377 Globalvia while 917 ACS is in partnership with 1378 John Laing. 976 Acciona joined Tutor Perini and 2516 Bilfinger and Berger while 980 OHL is in parternship with 1380 Judlau Contracting and 5177 Vinci of France

Related Content

  • Norwegian link – finances secured
    March 17, 2022
    Finances have been secured for a major Norwegian transport link.
  • Canada: work officially starts on Montreal’s Champlain Bridge
    June 25, 2015
    Canada’s infrastructure minister, Denis Label, officially broke ground for Montreal’s replacement Champlain Bridge, saying the project will likely cost US$3.42 billion. The 3.4km Champlain Bridge Corridor Project, including spans and highway expansions, is expected to be completed by 2019. SNC-Lavalin, the 50% stakeholder in the winning consortium Signature on the Saint-Lawrence, recently announced it had finalised the deal with new Champlain Bridge owner Infrastructure Canada. Signature on the Saint-
  • COWI wins Massey Tunnel design contract
    February 18, 2022
    COWI will develop an eight-lane immersed tunnel for the George Massey Crossing Project near Vancouver, Canada.
  • New international trade crossing linking Canada and US
    June 9, 2015
    The Detroit River is short, only 45km, and narrow in places, less than 1km. Around a quarter of the annual $658 billion Canada-US trade crosses over the river. That’s $160 billion worth of goods trucked each year between Detroit in the US state of Michigan and the Canadian city of Windsor in the province of Ontario - the Windsor-Detroit Corridor. There are several types of crossings, but the vast majority of commercial traffic must use the 2.3km Ambassador Bridge (see box). A new bridge was initially prop