Suez Canal Bridge

Coordinates: 30 ° 49 ′ 42 ″  N , 32 ° 19 ′ 1 ″  E

Suez Canal Bridge
use	Road bridge
Crossing of	Suez Canal
place	3 km south of El Qantara , Egypt
Entertained by	Ministry of Transport and Communication; General Authority for Roads, Bridges & Transport
construction	Cable-stayed bridge
overall length	3.9 km
width	10 m
Longest span	404 m
height	Pylons 154 m
Clear height	70 m
building-costs	about 22.5 billion yen
start of building	1995
opening	October 9, 2001
location

The Suez Canal Bridge ( Arabic كوبري السلام, DMG Kūbrī as-Salām  'Friedensbrücke', English Suez Canal Bridge, Al Salam Bridge ) is a road bridge over the Suez Canal near El Qantara in Egypt .

The bridge was on 9 October 2001 under the name of Egyptian-Japanese Friendship Bridge ( Egyptian-Japanese Friendship Bridge ) by the then President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak inaugurated. Later it was only called the Mubarak Peace Bridge. After Mubarak's dismissal in 2011, the name Peace Bridge seems to be common in Egypt , and foreigners often just call it the Suez Canal Bridge .

Building

The Suez Canal Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge in which the ropes are arranged in a fan system and carried by two H- pylons . The main bridge has a span of 404 m, which is flanked on both sides by a ramp bridge with a length of almost 1.8 km. The main bridge consists of a 10 m wide steel structure with 154 m high pylons made of reinforced concrete , which are supposed to be reminiscent of obelisks . The ramp bridges are a prestressed concrete hollow box construction on reinforced concrete pillars. The total length of the structure is 3.9 km.

The bridge has a clearance height of 70 m above the water level of the Suez Canal, so that it can be crossed by ships up to a height of 68 m. The Suez Canal Bridge, with a clearance of 70 m, is the highest bridge built on flat land and generally one of the highest bridges over shipping routes.

Development project, financing

The bridge was part of an Egyptian development project from 1994 to develop agriculture, mining and tourism on the Sinai Peninsula . It was financed with the help of a grant from the Japanese Official Development Assistance , which was agreed upon during a visit by President Mubarak to Japan in 1995. The grant covered 60% of the construction costs or 13.5 billion yen (approx. 124 million euros); the remaining 40% or 9 billion yen (€ 82 million) came from Egypt.

Web links

Commons : Suez Canal Bridge  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Suez Canal Bridge. In: Structurae
• Photos and data from one of the construction companies

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bridge over the Suez Canal. In: Structurae
2. ↑ Ahamed Fouad, Sanyout Shaker, Noriaki Ishitate, Kazuto Kamisakoda: Construction of the Japan-Egypt Friendship Bridge Pylons . In: Proceedings of the first fib Congress 2002 - Concrete Structures in the 21st Century . tape 1 . fédération internationale du béton (fib), 2002, p. 29 ( full text in Google Book Search).
3. ↑ Art. 52 Rules of Navigation of the Suez Canal Authority
4. ↑ For comparison, the clear height of some other bridges: Ponte 25 de Abril , Lisbon, Tejo: 70 m; Ponte da Arrábida , Porto, Douro: 70 m; Verrazano Narrows Bridge , New York: 66–69 m; Golden Gate Bridge , San Francisco: 67 m; Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge , Istanbul: 73 m; Storebæltsbroen , Great Belt: 65 m; Oresund Bridge , Malmö: 57 m; Köhlbrand Bridge , Port of Hamburg: 53 m.