6 Companies Bid for Salvadoran Highway Stretch

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Called 4C, the stretch runs from Ciudad Dolores to the bridge in Nuevo Edén de San Juan, in Cabañas.

Laprensagrafica.com details the bids: “Equipos de Construcción, $13.31 million; Constructora Eterna, $11.84 million; Constructora Meco, $16.94 million; Astaldi, $12.03 million; FCC Construcción de Centroamérica, $15.53 million and TOPSAL Construcciones, $12.48 million”.

Source: laprensagrafica.com

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