On June 25, the road on the upper deck of the Padma Bridge in Bangladesh, the largest BRI bridge project with participation from China Railway Shanhaiguan Bridge Group Co., Ltd., China Railway Baoji Bridge Group Co., Ltd. and China Railway Jiujiang Bridge Engineering Co., Ltd. affiliated to CRHIC, officially opened to traffic.
The Padma Bridge is the largest bridge project in Bangladesh The 4.16km long bridge serves for two purposes, two-way four-lane highway on the upper deck and single-track railway on the lower deck. Hailed as the 'Dream Bridge' in Bangladesh, the Padma Bridge is a bridge of friendship between China and Bangladesh. It is a steel truss highway-railway bridge adopting European standard all-welded structure made of thick steel plates. China Railway Shanhaiguan Bridge Group Co., Ltd. undertook the manufacturing of the steel structure weighing 125,800 tons in total and consisting of forty-one 150m-span steel truss beams, each weighing 3,200 tons. China Railway Baoji Bridge Group Co., Ltd. was responsible for the expansion device at the beam end. China Railway Jiujiang Bridge Engineering Co., Ltd. mainly manufactured process test piles and main bridge steel pipe piles totally weighing about 140,000 tons and cable piles weighing 18,000 tons, and remodeled the 3,600-ton-capacity Tianyi crane ship.
