Jiaozhou Bay Bridge(胶州湾大桥) in Qingdao,CHINA-World's Longest Sea Bridge
Channel: Agidl World
Date: 2020-10-09

WORLD'S LONGEST SEA BRIDGE.
Construction began in 2005 and opened on June 30, 2011 as a bridge connecting Qingdao and Huangdao in Shandong Province, China. It is the world's longest sea bridge with a total length of 41.58km.
It is also known as Qingdao Haaiwan Bridge or Zhaozhou Wan Quahai Bridge. Zhao, starting in the center of Qingdao, Shandong Province, ChinaThe construction began in May 2007 and opened on June 30, 2011, as a maritime bridge that runs through the waters of Zhouman to Hwangdao. The total length is 41.58 kilometers, which is about 3.2 kilometers longer than the Causeway Bridge (38.4 kilometers in total length) across Lake Ponchartrain in New Orleans, Louisiana, the world's longest maritime bridge. It is 35m wide and has six round-trip lanes, and was designed as China's first three-dimensional maritime intersection. Along with the bridge, a 9.47km-long undersea tunnel was also completed under the sea. The total construction cost was 9.53 billion yuan (about 1.65 trillion won).

With the opening of the bridge, it is estimated that about 35,000 vehicles will be used a day, and the driving distance between Qingdao and Hwangdao will be shortened by about 30km, reducing the operating time from 40 minutes to 20 minutes. In addition, it is the starting point of the highway connecting Qingdao with Lanzhou in western Gansu Province, China, and the overland distance from Ningbo in Zhejiang Province to Shanghai will be shortened by 120km.