According to recent news on the official website of the International Bridge Conference (IBC), the Hongqili Waterway Bridge of the Nansha Port Railway has been honored with the Theodore Cooper Medal. The project was jointly built by China Railway Shanhaiguan Bridge Group Co., Ltd. (CRSBG) and China Railway Jiujiang Bridge Engineering Co., Ltd.

The bridge was constructed under challenging conditions, with high wind speeds at the site, the convergence of four rivers, dense vessel traffic with intersecting navigation routes, a 770-meter-wide waterway, and a “W”-shaped riverbed. To address these constraints, the project pioneered the use of a flexible steel truss arch bridge with twin 360-meter main spans—the largest of its kind in the world—delivering high-efficiency coordination between superior spanning capacity and load-bearing performance. As a key control project of the Nansha Port Railway, its completion and commissioning have removed the “last mile” bottleneck for sea-rail intermodal transport along the China–Europe Railway Express.