Pont de l'amitié sino-malienne

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The Pont de l'amitié sino-malienne (German: Bridge of Chinese-Malian Friendship ) is a road bridge over the Niger in Bamako , the capital of the West African state of Mali . It is also known as the Bamako No. 3 Bridge as it is the third bridge in the city. However, the names are preliminary until an official name has been established. The bridge was financed by the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China and, according to an exchange of notes between the Chinese and Malian governments in August 2007, was expected to cost around 400 million yuan . In 2009, the cost was given as 346 million yuan. The project was awarded to the China Gezhouba Group Company on November 14, 2009 . The groundbreaking ceremony with then President Hu Jintao and Amadou Toumani Touré took place on February 13, 2009. It was stated that the construction time should take 40 months. However, the bridge was already completed after two years and four months and opened on the Malian national holiday , September 25, 2011 by Touré and the Chinese Minister of Commerce Yu Jianhua.

The bridge runs in a slight S-curve over the river just below the old Chaussée de Sotuba , a road with small bridges that runs through the flooded area of ​​the Niger and is flooded when the water level rises.

The entire construction project with feeders is 2294 m long and connects V5 Avenue in the north with RX6 Avenue in the south. The bridge itself is 1627 m long and 24 m wide. It has two asphalt concrete lanes separated by a median and a sidewalk on each side. Its 69 bridge fields span 1616 m between the abutments . Her two carriageways were as separate structures in the cantilever as a prestressed concrete bridge with a haunched hollow box running and projecting cover plate.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b China-Mali friendship bridge - Bamako No 3 Bridge. (No longer available online.) China Gezhouba Group Company, June 23, 2009, archived from the original on September 6, 2015 ; accessed on September 6, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Li Xing: Mali anoints bridge 'friendship'. In: China Daly. February 14, 2009, accessed September 6, 2015 .
  3. ^ Corinna Leblanc-Justin: Mali - China: Inauguration du "Pont de l'amitié sino-malienne" - Le Griot. (No longer available online.) In: Le Girot. September 26, 2011, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; Retrieved September 6, 2015 (French).

Coordinates: 12 ° 38 ′ 34 "  N , 7 ° 55 ′ 37"  W.