Dongbu Corporation said on the 3rd that key officials from El Salvador's Ministry of Public Works and Transportation (MOPT) recently visited the company's headquarters in Yeoksam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, to discuss the progress of the Los Chorros road and bridge expansion project and areas of cooperation.
The meeting was attended by key MOPT officials and senior executives including Cho Hong-bin, head of civil engineering at Dongbu Corporation. Dongbu Corporation asked for cooperation focused on support for carrying out local administrative procedures, quality and safety management measures, and future construction schedules.
MOPT said at the meeting it would actively support administrative and financial procedures to meet the goal of opening the northbound lanes by the end of December next year. The two sides agreed to complete the project successfully by prioritizing a balance of safety, quality, speed, and cost as the top value.
Dongbu Corporation said it is maintaining an all-out response system across the headquarters, field sites, and factories. In particular, it said it secured structural completeness and safety through thorough quality inspections during the fabrication of steel bridge structures. The company will expand working-level consultations and cooperation systems to ensure stable project progress and strengthened quality control.
A Dongbu Corporation official said, "We are carrying out the project with a sense of responsibility to contribute to improving national infrastructure, based on close cooperation with MOPT and the supervision team," and added, "We will put safety and quality first and achieve next year's opening goal without a hitch by strengthening rational schedule management and support systems."
The Los Chorros project under construction by Dongbu Corporation is a core national infrastructure project that includes expanding a total of 14.64 km of roads and building new bridges in the Los Chorros area west of San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador.
El Salvador is pushing this project to ease chronic traffic congestion and revitalize the regional economy. It is being carried out with financial support from the Economic Development Cooperation Fund (EDCF) of The Export-Import Bank of Korea and the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI). The total construction cost is about 485.8 billion won.