Worth Php 15 Billion Bridge linking Cebu City to Cordova

The cost of the portion from Shell Island to Cebu City will be shared between MPIC and the Cebu City Government.
Sitoy said they will rename Shell Island into Isla Trece Una-Una, which is about four kilometers from Cordova mainland. Shell Island is only 520 meters (or a little more than half kilometer) from Cebu City.
He said MPIC Vice President Mon Fernandez and MPIC counsel Aristotle Batuhan are in Cebu and have been conducting project briefings.
Sitoy said the other morning, Fernandez and Batuhan conducted a briefing before members of the group that advocated Mega Cebu. In the afternoon, they met with Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama.
Yesterday, Sitoy said, MPIC officials lunch meeting with the group of Cebu Gov. Hilario Davide III, represented by lawyer Mark Tolentino; and Cordova officials headed by him, at Marco Polo Plaza.
“This bridge project is a one hundred percent a done deal. Go, go go,” Sitoy said.

Image by: Cebu Daily News

The construction of a fifteen-billion peso toll-bridge linking Cebu City and Cordova is said to be starting early next year. The project will be spearheaded by Metro Pacific Investment Corp. (MPIC) of business tycoon Manny V. Pangilinan.