Çanakkale 1915 Bridge

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Coordinates: 40 ° 20 ′ 35 ″  N , 26 ° 38 ′ 7 ″  E

1915 Canakkale Bridge
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Official name 1915 Çanakkale Köprüsü
use Motorway (2 × 3 lanes)
Convicted Kınalı-Tekirdağ-Çanakkale-Balıkesir highway
Crossing of Dardanelles
place Gelibolu / Lapseki
construction Suspension bridge
overall length 3869 m
width 36 m
Longest span 2023 m
height 318 m
start of building 18th March 2017
completion March 18, 2022Template: future / in 2 years
planner Tekfen
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Canakkale 1915 Bridge (Turkey)
Çanakkale 1915 Bridge
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Location of the bridge with the connecting highways
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The Çanakkale 1915 Bridge ( Turkish Çanakkale 1915 Köprüsü ) is a suspension bridge under construction in Turkey , which is to span the Dardanelles . It will be part of the planned Kınalı-Tekirdağ-Çanakkale-Balıkesir highway and, in terms of its span, the longest suspension bridge in the world .

The reasons given for the project are great time savings and the lack of an alternative route to Otoyol 5 . The project aims to shorten the travel time between the Aegean region ( Izmir , Manisa ) and Europe as well as the European part of Istanbul and make the journey easier, for example by avoiding the coastal region near Çanakkale and Balıkesir , which is clearly congested in terms of traffic during the holiday season. Today the Dardanelles are crossed by ferries.

Surname

The name of the bridge is said to recall the Battle of Gallipoli in World War I , which is named after the province of Çanakkale in Turkey .

Project

The project, which was announced in 2012, was presented to the public on September 1, 2014 by the Turkish Minister of Transport. It will create a link between Turkey and Europe that bypasses the metropolitan area of ​​Istanbul. The Japanese conglomerate IHI , which was already involved in the construction of the Osman-Gazi Bridge , announced its interest in the project shortly afterwards, but at the same time pointed out the expected competition from Chinese and South Korean companies.

The tender also includes the Malkara - Lapseki section of the Kınalı-Tekirdağ-Çanakkale-Balıkesir highway . The project is being implemented as a BOT (Build-Operate-Transfer) project.

The suspension bridge as such will be 3869 m long and have spans of 923 +  2023  + 923 m. Together with the 775 m and 525 m long ramp bridges, the structure will be a total of 5169 m long. 2 × 3 lanes with hard shoulder will be set up on the 36 m wide carriageway. The size of the main opening (2023) numerically corresponds to the centenary of the founding of modern Turkey.

The tender of January 26, 2017 was won by a joint venture between the South Korean companies Daelim and SK Group together with the Turkish companies Limak Holding and Yapı Merkezi .

The groundbreaking ceremony took place on March 18, 2017, and were attended by, among others, President Erdoğan , Prime Minister Yıldırım and the South Korean Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Kang Ho-in . The date marks the anniversary of a futile attack by British and French warships in the course of the Battle of Gallipoli that resulted in the loss of three and severe damage to another three of the ships. The completion date is stated as March 18, 2022.

Web links

  • ÇED document (official report on the ecological impact of the project, contains many graphics and maps)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Çanakkale 1915 Köprüsü'nün ihalesi ay sonu yapılacak (Turkish) . In: Habertürk , September 13, 2016. Retrieved September 24, 2016. 
  2. ↑ A bridge on Çanakkale Strait finally in the works. Article from September 2, 2014 on Daily Sabah.com
  3. ↑ Turkey wants to build a bridge over the Dardanelles. Article from November 21, 2014 on Zeit Online
  4. ^ Turkey to bridge the Dardanelles in new mega project. Article from November 22, 2014 on Arab News
  5. ^ IHI keen to build world's longest suspension bridge in Turkey. Article dated October 28, 2014 on Nikkei Asian Review
  6. ↑ Archive link ( memento from October 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Announcement of the call in Turkish
  7. ↑ Groundbreaking ceremony for bridge over Dardanelles to take place on March 18 . Article from March 17, 2017 in the Hürriyet Daily News
  8. ↑ Turkey: Start of construction for the longest suspension bridge in the world. ORF, March 18, 2017, accessed on the same day.
  9. ↑ Construction of bridge across Dardanelles in Turkey starts in 2017. Article from September 5, 2016 on Construction.ru Russian online Journal