Donna International Crossing begins 60M expansion

Before members of the directive board of Donna’s International Bridge, as well as businessmen and local authorities, was held the official ceremony of the beginning of the construction of expansion in the border crossing that connects the city of Donna, Texas with Rio Bravo, Tamaulipas.

It is anticipated that the international bridge will have the commercial lane in April 2020 which will allow the crossing of 100 trucks per hour approximately.

Carlos Yerena, manager of the city of Donna, Texas, presided the official ceremony in which was announced the bridge expansion project which will have an investment of 60 million dollars and will include a command center, processing offices, detention area, X-ray machines, commercial traffic lanes and inspection stations that will allow American and Mexican authorities perform cargo inspections in this side of the border.

“This is a big project and one of the unique characteristics is that it will be a model project, many bridges in the area have a different kind of technology to make the crossing faster; however, this bridge will have two things that will make it unique,” said Yerena.

One characteristic that will distinguish this crossing is that it will have a joint inspection area, this way, American authorities, as well as Mexican, will perform inspections in the United States, this will speed-up crossings and trucks’ waiting time.

Another aspect that will make this crossing unique is that it will have an investment of 12 million dollars in high technology equipment, specialized to speed-up crossings.