Shambat Bridge

Union of the White and Blue Nile; The Shambat Bridge is visible in the background

The Shambat Bridge is a road bridge over the Nile between Omdurman and al-Chartum Bahri in Sudan .

The name of the bridge is derived from the Shambat district in al-Chartum Bahri.

The 1050 m long and 23.60 m wide bridge has two times two lanes and wide sidewalks.

The prestressed concrete bridge has openings 88 m wide. The foundations of their pillars were made with caissons at a depth of more than 30 m. The superstructure consists of two rectangular hollow sections of variable height and a cantilever slab and was in cantilever erected.

The bridge was built from 1963 to 1965 by the Italian company Recchi. It was the first prestressed concrete bridge built abroad by an Italian company.

Web links

Ponte sul Nilo a Khartoum with a film about the construction of the bridge (Italian); on recchi.com
BBC News about an accident on the bridge in 2001

Individual evidence

^ Gianluca Capurso, Francesca Martire: Cantieri nel vuoto; viadotti in cerca d'autore . In: Tullia Iori, Sergio Poretti (eds.): Storia dell'ingegneria strutturale in Italia - SIXXI 4: Twentieth Century Structural Engineering: The Italian Contribution . Gangemi Editore, Rome, ISBN 978-88-492-4934-7 , pp. 103 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

15.644252777778 32.506061111111Coordinates: 15 ° 38 ′ 39.3 " N , 32 ° 30 ′ 21.8" E

[1] Gianluca Capurso, Francesca Martire: Cantieri nel vuoto; viadotti in cerca d'autore . In: Tullia Iori, Sergio Poretti (eds.): Storia dell'ingegneria strutturale in Italia - SIXXI 4: Twentieth Century Structural Engineering: The Italian Contribution . Gangemi Editore, Rome, ISBN 978-88-492-4934-7 , pp. 103 ( limited preview in Google Book search).