The Turkish dry cargo crashed into the supports of the bridge under construction in the Kerch Strait

The Turkish dry load collided with the supports of the working bridge under construction in the Kerch Strait. As TASS reports , a source in the Crimean bridge information center announced this. According to him, the incident did not affect the timing of the construction of a bridge transition to the Crimea.

The incident occurred on March 19, but it became known only now. "On March 19 at 23:25, the ship" Lira "under the flag of Panama, owned by the company Turkuaz Shipping Corp, when following and along the Kerch -Inical canal, deviated from the recommended path in the Buevo 21 and 23a area, and then made it on the structural elements of the working bridge," the source said.

As a result of a collision with a sea vessel, support number 80 was destroyed, including piles with a diameter of 1020 millimeters and a length of 58 meters, crossbars and heads. Separately clogged lighthouse piles suffered, two more neighboring supports were damaged.

The crew of the vessel consisting of nine people was not injured, the dry cargo is put on a raid in the port of Taganrog.

The state contract for the design and construction of the bridge across the Kerch Strait was signed on February 17, 2015 between the Federal Party Management Service of the Federal Roads of the Taman Rosavtodor and LLC Stroygazmontazh. It is planned that construction work will be completed in December 2018, and traffic along the bridge in the working regime will be opened. In 2019, after the completion of all launch work and the landscaping of the territory of the bridge, the bridge will be completed It is planned to put into operation.