Not an entry
but for those of you who appreciate engineering projects have a look at this water bridge
This is a channel-bridge over the River Elbe and joins the former East and
West Germany, as part of the unification project. It is located in the city
of Magdeburg, near Berlin. The photo was taken on the day of inauguration.
Taking six years to build and costing around half a billion euros, the massive undertaking will connect
Berlin's inland harbor with the ports along the Rhine river.
At the center of the project is Europe's longest water bridge measuring
in just shy of a kilometer at 918 meters. The huge tub to
transport ships over the Elbe took 24,000 metric tons of steel
and 68,000 cubic meters of concrete to build.
The water bridge will enable river barges to avoid a lengthy and sometimes unreliable passage along the
Elbe. Shipping can
often come to a halt on the stretch if the river's water mark falls to unacceptably low levels.
Holiday Photo Contest 05 / 06
