Bataan-Cavite road link provides broader industrial growth for the country

BALANGA CITY, Bataan – A reputable government run-construction company in the People’s Republic of China has expressed its interest to participate in the construction of a Bataan-Cavite Link project which will be the country’s longest bridge when completed.

Bataan Governor Albert Raymond S. Garcia and a representative of the China-based CSCEC Straight Construction and Development Company, Ltd. officially forged a Memorandum of Understanding last week for a monumental project which could help ease the backbreaking traffic in Metro Manila in the form of a bridge or tunnel at the entry point of Manila Bay.

Engineer Ricky C. Herrera, Bataan provincial assessor and one of the ten (10) delegates from the province headed by Vice Governor Ma. Cristina M. Garcia, explained the foreign proponent of the project invited the group thru Governor Garcia to undertake ocular and sites inspection of the construction firm’s on-going projects in Fuzhou-China.

Engineer Herrera said  that China, reportedly registered  more than 300  coastal bridges  built  worldwide  for the past years  is eyeing the twenty (20) kilometers Manila Bay Bridge project connecting Mariveles,Bataan – Corregidor Island – Naic ,Cavite which would bring exceptional development and solid encouragement to multi-national locators to invest in the historic peninsula  and fast developing province of Cavite.

Herrera, a professional civil engineer, stressed the spectacular four-lane Manila Bay Bridge project would likely install the province as the nucleus of economic evolution  of the three most progressive regions in the country namely Calabarzon, National Capital Region and Central Luzon.

He assessed the ideal geographical location of the proposed Manila Bay Bridge project which is the shortest connection of two super regions could be designed to accommodate, oil, water, and other basic utility pipelines, fiber optics and other areas including passenger railways.

Relatively, the plan for the combined bridge and tunnel completes the big ring of strategic growth or what is now a network of existing and integrated roads South and North of Metro Manila.

The Chinese technical group is reportedly scheduled to commence extensive testing, design, sea waves and tidal movements, foundation and engineering analysis of the projected route to determine the infrastructural integrity of the multi-billion dollar bridge project, Herrera added.

The Bataan-Corregidor-Cavite bridge project tops the list of priority projects of Governor Garcia under the Public–Private Partnership for the people and investment opportunities to further hasten the province’s robust economic expansion.

Aside from the Manila Bay Bridge scheme, the Chinese–state construction company is looking for another viable project, implementation of an international port terminal near the Freeport Area of Bataan .The port terminal would have a total of 180 hectares as a land reclamation project with a total berth length of more than six kilometers, 20 container berths and 100 hectares of container –storage yard.

 Photo courtesy of Vice Gov Cris Garcia FB page.