DHAKA: A deal has been signed on Tuesday with China Major Bridge Engineering Company (MBEC) to construct much-talked-about Padma Multipurpose Bridge.
On behalf of MBEC and Padma Bridge Project, Leo Zimming and project director Shafiqul Islam signed the agreement in a city hotel on Tuesday evening.
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader, Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal, State Minister for Finance and Planning Affairs MA Mannan and MBEC high ups were among others present in the signing ceremony.
On June 2, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina gave her approval to the work order of the construction of the main part of Padma Bridge.
The MBEC got the work order as the lowest bidder of the construction work worth about Tk 12,133.39 crore.
China Major Bridge Engineering Company (MBEC), placed the 12th among the largest and best 500 construction enterprises in China, evolves from former Major Bridge Engineering Bureau, Ministry of Railways after the ownership reform.
It is a state designated first grade construction enterprise that comprises scientific research, survey and design, construction, machinery making and bridge manufacture, construction supervision.
It possesses a Top-Level License for General Contracting in Construction Projects.
The MBEC mainly specializes in the scientific research, survey and design, construction, supervision for all kinds of bridges, highways, harbor and seashore projects, city light railways, water irrigation, buildings as well as manufacture of engineering machinery, drilling equipment, pre-cast concrete products, huge steel structure making while engages ship making and repairing, transportation, leasing, facility and structure erection, and the relative technical consultation and engineering supervision.
The MBEC installed the piles of world’s longest cable-stayed bridge, 2,680km (main span) JiaShao Bridge in China.
The MBEC provided 78 percent design service and undertook 52.5 percent construction work of Hangzhou Bay Bridge of China, the longest sea-crossing bridge in the world.
BDST: 2040 HRS, JUN 17, 2014
