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Haulotte wraps it up at Turkey’s Osman Gazi Bridge

French access group Haulotte and the Turkish access distributor and rental group Acarlar continue to contribute to major infrastructure projects in Turkey, including the new Osman Gazi Bridge. The bridge – the third Bosporus crossing - has just been completed with the installation of the last bridge deck. The bridge will reach a height of 252m and the bridge deck will be nearly 26m wide. When it soon opens, the bridge will be the fourth longest suspension bridge in the world by the length of its central
July 5, 2016 Read time: 2 mins
French access group 712 Haulotte and the Turkish access distributor and rental group Acarlar continue to contribute to major infrastructure projects in Turkey, including the new Osman Gazi Bridge.

The bridge – the third Bosporus crossing - has just been completed with the installation of the last bridge deck. The bridge will reach a height of 252m and the bridge deck will be nearly 26m wide. When it soon opens, the bridge will be the fourth longest suspension bridge in the world by the length of its central span – 1,550m.

The Osman Gazi Bridge is part of the partially completed tolled motorway Gebze-Orhangazi-İzmir Highway project, costing around US$9 billion. The 433km highway runs south from Gebze, a city about 50km east of Istanbul and on the north coast of the sea of Marmara, to the city of Bursa and then further south to the Aegean coastal city of İzmir, an industrial hub and tourist destination. It will cut the travel time between Istanbul and İzmir from nine hours to three-and-a-half. Construction started in 2013 and many of Haulotte’s electric and diesel scissors have helped build the bridge’s superstructure, such as installing and fixing steel beams. Several units of the rough terrain articulating boom HA41PX-NT were involved in the work.

Meanwhile, Haulotte recently opened a North American headquarters in the city of Virginia Beach, in the state of Virginia.

The 7,711m2 facility supports the company’s executive offices, customer sales and service support, training centre and distribution of spare parts and finished goods. Additionally, the customer care centre will oversee parts fulfillment, warehousing, pre-delivery inspections and repairs. The previous Maryland facility was roughly 1,300m2.

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