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Panj River Bridge at Panji Poyon

General Information

Completion: 2007
Status: in use

Project Type

Structure: Girder bridge
Function / usage: Road bridge

Location

Location: , ,
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Coordinates: 37° 11' 38.55" N    68° 36' 12.99" E
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Technical Information

Dimensions

width 11.6 m
total length 672 m

Excerpt from Wikipedia

The Tajikistan-Afghanistan bridge spanning the Panj River between Panji Poyon (or Nizhniy Pyandzh), Tajikistan and Sherkhan Bandar, Afghanistan was opened on 26 August 2007. The two lane bridge is 672 metres (2,205 feet) long and 11.6 metres (38 feet) wide. It cost approximately $40 million, financed by the US Army Corps of Engineers and was designed and constructed by an Italian company, Rizzani de Eccher S.p.A. The Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and Afghan President Hamid Karzai were joined by US Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez at the opening ceremony.

Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez at the 2007 dedication ceremony of the bridge.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Tajik–Afghan bridge at Panji Poyon" and modified on 02 June 2020 according to the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

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  • Structure-ID
    20052903
  • Published on:
    11/02/2010
  • Last updated on:
    26/12/2021
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