How much did San Juanico Bridge cost to build?
The San Juanico Bridge is a 2,164-metre steel-truss bridge across the San Juanico Strait linking Samar and Leyte in the Philippines, the country's longest bridge over water, built from 1969 with materials and equipment from Japan's Marubeni Corporation and inaugurated on 2 July 1973. Both English Wikipedia and a VERA Files commentary of October 2022 give the construction cost as USD 22 million obtained from a Japanese loan, about PHP 154 million at 1970s rates according to Wikipedia.
Reported project cost
$22 million
Cost basis: 1973
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Basis of the published figure
Reported project cost1973
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Key dimensions
- Total lengthverafiles.org
- 2,164 m
- Main spanverafiles.org
- 192 m
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