Monday, June 27, 2011

This Malacca Strait Bridge Design

The bridge that connects the Strait of Malacca Rupat Island, Riau, with Malacca,Malaysia, will be built with a length of 48.69 kilometers (km). However, because theinfrastructure on the island Rupat not possible, to be built all along the 71.2 km road andbridge connecting the island of Sumatra Island Rupat, along the 8 km.

In the proposal submitted Malaysia's Strait of Malacca Partners Sdn Bhd, was quoted as saying VIVAnews.com, Monday, May 16, 2011, shows the design of the main bridgeon the Strait of Malacca is situated 12 km after Rupat Island.
This is in place, the bridge no longer use the pole, but large cables, a distance of 4.3 kmcable antartiang buffer. The bridge has also been increased to 76 meters, so the largetankers could break through this bridge.
Not only that, the bridge will also be designed with two other ships crossing. However,each only as wide as 2.3 km and 2.8 km.
Strait of Malacca, is one of the busiest lines in Southeast Asia. Large vessels with acapacity of more than 300 thousand tons of regular past ocean at a depth 50-60 meters.

Bridge crossings will be designed as an economical and attractive appearance. Thosewho pass will not only cross the strait, but also can see the sights on the islands around.

Construction of main bridge is expected to cost U.S. $ 11 billion, while Rupat liaisonwith the island of Sumatra Island, is estimated to cost U.S. $ 1.75 billion. The totaldevelopment reached U.S. $ 12.75 billion, or about Rp110 trillion by Rp8.600 per U.S. dollar exchange rate. (art)




source : http://bisnis.vivanews.com

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