First parts for new Sava bridge arrive from China – CSCEC to begin enlarging and assembling main span next week (PHOTO)

The first shipment of the steel structure of the new bridge over the Sava has arrived in Belgrade and yesterday the unloading of one of a total of seven barges onto the construction site plateau near Branko’s Bridge began.

These are parts of a 3,500-ton bridge that left the Chinese province of Jiangsu three months ago from the CSCEC factory where the new bridge is being built, writes today’s Politika.

According to this daily, a convoy of seven barges has now delivered more than 50% of the steel structure of the new bridge, a total of 6,500 tons.

– Next week, when the entire shipment is unloaded, the subcontractor for the construction of the steel structure CSCEC will begin enlarging and assembling the 166-meter main span on the construction site plateau – said Lazar Pavic, bridge engineer for the Chinese company PowerChina, which is the main contractor for the construction of the new bridge.

Power Construction Corporation of China Limited Ogranak Beograd

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