{"id":3293,"date":"2023-07-02T09:04:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T09:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstprime.org\/construction\/2023\/07\/02\/lagos-shortlists-consortium-to-build-2-5bn-bridge\/"},"modified":"2023-07-02T09:04:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T09:04:29","slug":"lagos-shortlists-consortium-to-build-2-5bn-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstprime.org\/construction\/2023\/07\/02\/lagos-shortlists-consortium-to-build-2-5bn-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos shortlists consortium to build $2.5bn bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>A consortium led by Portugal&#8217;s builder Mota-Engil and two Chinese ventures has been shortlisted by Nigeria&#8217;s Lagos state to build a $2.5bn bridge that is expected to relieve severe congestion in the mega city, an official said on Sunday, 27 November.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"kContentImage \">\n<p>Source: Gallo\/Getty<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The 37km Fourth Mainland Bridge will be built under a public-private partnership. It will include three toll plazas, nine interchanges and a design speed of 120km per hour, said Jubril Gawat, a senior spokesperson for the Lagos state governor.<\/p>\n<p>Mota-Engil is partnering with China Communication &amp; Construction Corporation and China Road &amp; Bridge Corporation in the bid.<\/p>\n<p>China Gezhouba Group Company and China Geo-Engineering Corporation joint venture and a consortium led by China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation are the two other shortlisted bidders.<\/p>\n<p><!--AD CONTENTBODY --><\/p>\n<p>The winner of the bid will be announced before the end of the year, said Gawat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A consortium led by Portugal&#8217;s builder Mota-Engil and two Chinese ventures has been shortlisted by Nigeria&#8217;s Lagos state to build a $2.5bn bridge that is expected to relieve severe congestion in the mega city, an official said on Sunday, 27 November. Source: Gallo\/Getty The 37km Fourth Mainland Bridge will be built under a public-private partnership. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[75,76],"class_list":["post-3293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infrastructure-utilities","tag-infrastructure","tag-utilities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstprime.org\/construction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstprime.org\/construction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstprime.org\/construction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstprime.org\/construction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstprime.org\/construction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firstprime.org\/construction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3295,"href":"https:\/\/firstprime.org\/construction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3293\/revisions\/3295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstprime.org\/construction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstprime.org\/construction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstprime.org\/construction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstprime.org\/construction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}