President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev officially opened a new railway bridge Turkmenabat – Farab across Amudarya River, Turkmenistan state news agency announced.
New 1750-meters railway bridge is built with application of new technologies. High seismic and exploitation resistant constructions, designed for super heavy trains, were used.
Before the opening of the new rail bridge, the railway traffic across the Amudarya was assured by old bridge built in 1901 but the last inspection revealed that that capacity of number of elements of the construction is considerably reduced.
In 2013, the President of Turkmenistan signed a Resolution on the construction of a new railway bridge. The general contractor of the project was Altcom Road Construction Ltd.
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