General Information
| Completion: | 2007 |
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| Status: | in use |
Project Type
| Function / usage: |
Road bridge |
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| Structure: |
Girder bridge |
Location
| Location: |
Shir Khan Bandar, Kunduz, Afghanistan Panji Poyon, Tajikistan |
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| Coordinates: | 37° 11' 38.55" N 68° 36' 12.99" E |
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 June 2, 2020 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
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