List of longest suspension bridge spans
Planned and proposed bridges

List of longest suspension bridge spans

Section Title: Planned and proposed bridges
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Name	Location	Main span	Status	Notes

Gibraltar Bridge	Spain to Morocco	Very long	Proposed	Some designs have suspension spans of several miles. The suspension cables of a very long bridge might be suspended from the ends of cable-stayed struts extending diagonally from huge pylons.

Hordfast	Bjørnafjorden, Norway	5,000 m (16,000 ft)	Bridge under planning	The preferred solution to connect Bergen and Haugesund along E39 highway. This is probably the most difficult of the planned E39 crossings.

Sulafjord Bridge	Sulafjorden, Norway	4,000 m (13,000 ft)	Bridge under planning	Will replace the ferry connecting Hareid and Sula, as well as being part of the national "Ferry-free E39" project. This bridge is a challenging and costly project, crossing wide and deep 450 m (1,480 ft) fjord.

Sognebrua	Sognefjorden, Norway	3,700 m (12,100 ft)	Bridge under planning	One of several proposals for crossing the 1,300-metre-deep (4,300 ft) fjord as part of making the E39 highway along Norway's west coast ferry-free.

Strait of Messina Bridge	Sicily to mainland Italy	3,300 m (10,800 ft)	Cancelled	The project was cancelled on 11 October 2006 by the Romano Prodi-led government amid controversy concerning the bridge's cost. The new government from 2008 led by Silvio Berlusconi wanted to pick up the project again.

Sunda Strait Bridge	Java to Sumatra, Indonesia	about 3,000 m (9,800 ft)	Cancelled	This project has been approved by the Indonesian government. If completed, it will not only be the world's longest suspension bridge (26 km), but will also have a main span of about 3,000 m (9,800 ft)—roughly fifty percent longer than the current record.

Malacca Strait Bridge	Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysia to Sumatra, Indonesia	2,600 m (8,500 ft)	Preliminary work	Joint project between the Malaysian and Indonesian governments for a 48-kilometre-long (30 mi) crossing. Included is a suspension span of 2,600 m and a cable-stayed span of 1,200 m, making both longer than any existing in their category.

Edvard Grieg Bridge	Halsafjord, Norway	about 2,000 m (6,600 ft)	Proposed	The bridge will replace a ferry, and reduce the driving time between Trondheim and Molde by 34 minutes.

Mao Zedong Bridge	Qiongzhou Strait, China	about 2,000 m (6,600 ft)	Preliminary work	A suspension bridge is being considered to cross the 22.5-kilometre-wide (14.0 mi) Qiongzhou Strait. One design consists of four bridges strung together with four main spans of 2,000 m, two main-spans of 1,800 m, five anchorages and 10 towers.

Julsund Bridge	Julsundet, Norway	1,625 m (5,331 ft)	Planned	The bridge will replace a ferry, located west of Molde. Together with 16 km undersea tunnel under Romsdalsfjorden, is a part of the "ferry-free E39" project.

Chacao Channel bridge	Chiloé to mainland Chile	1,100 m (3,600 ft)	Preliminary work	This unusual design had two main spans of 1,055 m and 1,100 m without an anchorage between them. Construction was supposed to begin in 2007 and completed in 2012, but because of cost overruns, the project is now on hold.

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Chacao Channel bridge is the longest suspension bridge.

final_sentence: Chacao Channel bridge is the longest suspension bridge.