China Harbour Engineering Company Limited in Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka and Bangladesh government signed the Dhaka - West Wright road widening project framework contract, the contract amount of $2 billion 100 million. Kader, general manager of the Ministry of road transport and bridge, Tang Qiaoliang, general manager of the China Harbour Engineering Company Limited and the relevant departments of the Meng Meng attended the signing ceremony.
According to relevant data, the project in Dhaka as a starting point to the north, Sylhet to the end, a total length of about 225 km, the original plan will upgrade the two-way two lane two-way 4 main lane and road side, each with a total of 6 car emergency lane, two-way road, road dividing bandwidth of 1.2 m, total road width 36.4 meters, the design speed of 80 km / hour, the asphalt pavement; bridge a total of 112 seats (large bridge 1, bridge 15, 60 small bridges, bridge, culvert 36) about 5262 meters long, 6018 meters long underground passage.
Tang Bridge with the Bangladesh road traffic and highway bureau chief engineer Hassan on behalf of the two sides signed the project framework contract.
Dhaka to Sylhet will effectively improve the road transport capacity of the implementation of the project, to ease the current traffic congestion and promote the economic development of the area along the line, promote the economic development and the road of Bangladesh; to achieve regional interoperability, is of great significance to promote regional trade development.