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Suez Canal Bridge

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The bridge, which has a 70-metre (229 ft 8 in) clearance over the canal and is 3.9 kilometres (2.4 mi) long, consists of a 400-metre (1,300 ft) cable-stayed main span and two 1.8-kilometre (1.1 mi) long approach spans.
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The clearance under the bridge is 70 metres (229 ft 8 in). Therefore, the maximum height of ships that can pass through the Suez Canal (
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The height of the two main pylons supporting the main span is 154 metres (505 ft) each. The towers were designed in the shape of Pharaonic
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The Japanese grant, accounting for 60% of the construction cost (or 13.5 billion yen), was agreed to during the visit of then-President
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The Suez Canal Bridge was part of a major drive to develop the areas surrounding the
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Planning, design and construction aspects of the Suez Canal cable stayed bridge
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to Japan in March 1995, as part of a larger project to develop the
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Matsumoto T, Mukoyama T, Yonezawa E, Yamazaki T, Fujita T (2018).
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Cable-stayed bridge semi-fan arrangement, H-pylon, hollow box
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General Authority for Roads, Bridges & Transport
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Index

Egyptian-Japanese Friendship Bridge
El Ferdan Railway Bridge

Coordinates
30°49′42″N 32°19′03″E / 30.828248°N 32.317572°E / 30.828248; 32.317572
Suez Canal
El Qantara
Egypt
Steel
reinforced concrete
Clearance below
Kajima
Kajima
JFE Holdings
Nippon Steel
Suez Canal
El-Qantara
Egyptian Arabic
Africa
Asia

Japanese
Kajima Corporation
Hosni Mubarak
Sinai Peninsula
obelisks
Suezmax
Suez Canal
Ahmed Hamdi Tunnel
El Ferdan Railway Bridge

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