This lengthy 19 kilometer (12 mi) long bridge will connect the German island of Fehmarn to the Lolland Danish island across the Fehmarn Strait located in the western Baltic Sea.Both new and used construction equipment such barges, cranes for the superstructure and excavators, loaders, dozers, dump trucks, graders, rollers, compactors, generators for the abutments will prove valuable to the building of this bridge.
Denmark and Germany signed up for this construction of a road and rail bridge by 2018 worth $8.1 billion (€5.6 billion).
The bridge will replace the ferry and air traffic between the two countries reducing the cost of transport. Sea traffic will be possible underneath the bridge as the vertical clearance will be of 65 m (213 ft).
The design is a cable-stayed bridge with three 724 metres (2,375 ft) long spans, and four pillars about 280 metres (919 ft) tall. It will allow four road lanes and two rail tracks.
Comparable to the Øresund Bridge, the Great Belt Bridge or plans for the Strait of Messina Bridge, this will be the largest planned infrastructure project in Northern Europe. The route is the main connection between Hamburg, (Hamburg Metropolitan Region), and Copenhagen / Malmö, (Øresund Region); (in German: Vogelfluglinie, in Danish: fugleflugtslinjen) as well as further destinations in Scandinavia.
From the total $8.1 billion (€5.6 billion), Denmark will pay €4.8 billion. Germany will only have to pay for the connection between the bridge and its existing transport infrastructure. Denmark expects to be reimbursed for its expenses through user tolls as Denmark will be transformed into a transit country for neighbouring (Norway and Sweden) exports to Germany.
