Qatar-Bahrein Causeway-Project
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In 2009 - 2010, TOP-Offshore provided in a HSE-Manager, as well as serveral HSE-Engineers, for the consortium of companies tendering for the Qatar-Bahrein Causeway-project in Qatar. The 40-kilometre bridge will include a four-lane motor crossing, which was scheduled for completion in 2013, and two railway lines that were due to be completed by 2015. |
The project will also comprise 22 kilometres of bridges and viaducts and 18km of embankments and two 400-metre cable-stayed bridges. The causeway will connect Ras Ashairij on the west coast of Qatar to Askar on the east coast of Bahrain.
The project is also known as the Friendship Bridge and was to be jointly funded by the Qatari and Bahraini governments, which would recover some of the construction costs through the implementationof a toll system on the bridge.
The crossing is expected to cut the journey time between the two countries, which currently involves a detour through Saudi Arabia, from five hours currently to just 30 minutes.
The project was stopped in june 2010
for uncertain reasons. However, it is expected that the rewarding
and preparations of the project will start in 2011.