By: Taarek Refaat, Ali Abu-Dashish
CAIRO, Mar. 29 (SEE)- Engineer Mohsen Salah, Chairman of the Arab Contractors Company said on Friday that the company is partnering with hundreds of companies to build and reconstruct the new administrative capital.
During his remarks with TV host Tamer Amin on Al-Nahar channel, Salah said that Al-Farag axis is one of the most important projects of the national road network. It is aimed at transferring the traffic congestion from the east of Cairo to the Alexandria Desert Road, Matrouh and El-Alamein without passing through the heart of Cairo, linking the north and east with the areas of western Cairo, and connecting with the regional ring road, the Qattara lowlands and the North Coast.
The axis includes a bridge on the western Nile about 400 meters long, 50 meters wide, 14 meters high from the surface of the water, and the width of the navigational opening is 120 meters, allowing the passage of floating hotels by the moving vehicles system.
The bridge is built on six columns, three columns in the east, and the same number in the west. The height of the columns is 100 meters from the surface of the water. It is placed on a base of 80 meters, a diameter of two meters and a depth of 46 meters.
The project also includes the implementation of the “East Egypt” bridge, World’s widest suspension bridge located on the top of the Nile River, east of Al-Warraq Island, it consists of two main towers, about 100 meters above the surface of the water. Cables weighing up to 1000 tons will carry the bridge's body, with a width of 64 to 84 meters including the largest slot navigation through the River Nile, where the width of the navigation aperture will reach 300 meters.
The work is carried out by 4,000 engineers, technicians and experienced workers, including those working under the Nile River in the piles and column bases.
Arab contractors company is present in half the African continent including Rwanda, Sudan, Mali, Morocco, and Algeria.
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