MegaStructures – China’s Ultimate Port, Yangshan Port



MegaStructures – China’s Ultimate Port, Yangshan Port

The National Geographic Documentary show the incredible operation that made the  Yangshan Port (???) 

It was built Port of Shanghai to grow despite shallow waters near the shore, it allows berths with depths of up to 15 metres (49 ft) to be built, and can handle today’s largest container ships. The port is built on the islands of Greater and Lesser Yangshan, part of the Zhoushan archipelago, with fill from land reclamation.

It is connected to the mainland via the 32.5 km (20.2 mi) Donghai Bridge, opened on 1 December 2005 as the world’s longest sea bridge. The six-lane highway bridge took 6,000 workers two and half years to construct.

[youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh_YEORzB-I”]

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