On October 24, the Changshan River Bridge on the Shanghai–Hangzhou Expressway, constructed by China Railway Major Bridge Engineering Group under CREC, officially opened to traffic.
The Changshan River Bridge is a key node in the high-grade inland waterway container transport corridor in northern Zhejiang. It crosses the Hangpingshen Canal, runs southwest to northeast, and has a main span of 170 meters with a design speed of 120 km/h. The old bridge at the site had a clearance of only 5.5 meters, insufficient for the passage of triple-deck container ships. After demolition and reconstruction, the new bridge adopted a 112-meter span simply supported steel truss girder design, increasing the main navigational clearance to 7 meters and ensuring the smooth passage of triple-deck container vessels.
The completion and opening of the Changshan River Bridge significantly enhance container throughput capacity in northern Zhejiang’s inland waterways, further expanding the economic hinterlands of ports such as Jiaxing Port and Ningbo-Zhoushan Port. It plays an important role in promoting the development of the sea-river intermodal transport hub in northern Zhejiang and advancing the shift from bulk cargo to containerized and land-to-water transport modes.
