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Further details of the Baakenhafenbrucke is the largest bridge construction project in Hamburg’s HafenCity. The bridge measures 170 metres long, 21 meters wide, weighs about 2,300 tons and will cost EUR 15 million. The bridge for the traffic will be released in August 2013. In Belgium, the bridge was built and transported over the North Sea and the Elbe to Hamburg. The two outer parts of the bridge weighing 900 tons and run on the two pillars of the country. The middle segment is smaller: it weighs “only” 500 tons and is easily mounted in the other two parts of the bridge. So can be lifted out back there, if, for example, a museum ship in the baakenhafen Harbour to be brought.

Large floating cranes are no longer needed. It is simply used the force of the tide. At low tide, a hub pontoon under the bridge is positioned. The pontoon rising with the tide and pushing the bridge from the anchor. Then so are the two parts of the bridge to the South and north shores locked, that they not be lifted with the flood. So, the middle section can be pulled away by tractors.

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Taiwanese Straits Exchange Foundation

“” Service trade pact between the two sides of the Taiwan Street nearing completion the Mainland Affairs Council “of the Republic of China (Taiwan) (MAC) announced on May 27, 2013, that Taiwan and mainland China shortly before the signing of a trade agreement on services in the wake of the cross-straits economic cooperation framework agreement” (ECFA), would be. “This Pact is the first directly related to the ECFA and the General Agreement on trade in services of the World Trade Organization” be standing, free trade agreement between Taiwan and mainland China. Signed this important Pact gives a strong message that Taiwan seeks a further liberalisation of the trade of the world. “It is also the way for Taiwan, a more important role in regional economic agreements, such as the trans-Pacific Partnership” and the regional comprehensive economic partnership “, to take. The Minister of the MAC, Wang Yu-chi, made these remarks during a press conference in Taipei City and gave details about the progress of negotiations known between the two sides. The agreement will deepen the trust between Taipei and Beijing and strengthen relations with each side of the Taiwan Strait. It will also pave the way for smooth negotiations of other pacts, such as, for example, agreement for trade in services and dispute resolution.

According to the MAC, the negotiations for the agreement were recorded in February 2011. There were already ten meetings between organization representatives of both sides in the past two years. “The signing of the Pact, which now represents the 19th between Beijing and Taiwan, is expected in mainland China during the 9th round of talks between officials of the Taiwanese Straits Exchange Foundation” and the mainland Chinese side, the Association for relations across the Taiwan Straits “, take place. Trust worthy sources according to it says that Taiwan and mainland China are mutually 55 and 65 sectors, respectively, are open.