جسر الملك فهد
The King Fahd Causeway
الاجابة
1. The King Fahd Causeway (Jisr al-Malik Fahd) جسر الملك فهد is a series سلسلة
of bridges الجسور and causeways connecting المتصلة Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
The idea of constructing بناء the causeway طريق was based on improving تحسين
the links العلاقات and bonds الروابط between Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
Surveying مسح of the maritime المنطقة البحرية began in 1968, and construction
began in 1981 and continued until 1986, when it was officially رسمي ا opened افتتح
to the public. لعامة الناس
2. The idea of building a bridge linking the Kingdom of Bahrain to the Eastern
region المنطقة الشرقية of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was born out of King Saud's
wish to develop and further solidify تقوية thelinks between the two Kingdoms,
during an official visit زيارة رسمسة to the State of Bahrain دولة البحرين in 1954.
3. In 1965, the desire الرغبة to construct بناء the causeway began to take form
officially when Sheikh Khalifah ibn Sulman Al Khalifah, the Prime Minister رئيس
وزراء of the State of Bahrain, paid a courtesy visit زيارة ودية to King Faisal and the
king expressed عبر عن امنيته his wish to have the causeway constructed.
4.In 1968, both countries formed a joint committee شكلوا لجنة مشتركة to assess
لتقييم the financial undertaking الالتزام المالي required المطلوب for the task للمهمة . This
required تطلب taking into account الأخذ بالحسبان the environmental and
geographical aspects الجوانب الجغرافية والبيئية of the Saudi-Bahrain region.
5.On 8 July 1981, Mohammed Aba Al-Khail, then minister for Finance وزير المالية
and National Economy والاقتصاد الوطني of Saudi Arabia and Yousuf Ahmed Al-
Shirawi, then minister of Industrial Development وزير التطور الصناعي in Bahrain
signed an agreement وقعوا اتفاقية to start construction on the maritime causeway
6. On 26 November 1986, the causeway was officially inaugurated افتتح in the
presence بحضور of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques , خادم الحرمين الشريفين
King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia and His Royal Highness صاحب السمو
الملكي Shaikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifah, Emir أمير of the State of Bahrain, with
the latter الأخير consenting وافق على to naming تسمية the bridge King Fahd
Causeway.
7. As of 2010, it is estimated تقدر that number of vehicles عربات using the
causeway is about 25,104 daily. The total number of travelers across the
causeway from both countries in the year 2010 was 19.1 million
passengers مسافرين , or an average معدل of 52,450 passengers per day.
8.The project cost تكلفة المشروع a total of US$800 million (SAR3 billion). One of
the major رئيسي contractors of the project was Ballast Nedam, based in
the Netherlands هولندا . It is unclear غير واضح how many workers were engaged
اشترك in the construction بناء of the Causeway. The four-lane road طريق اربعة مسارب
is 25 km (16 miles) long and approximately 23 m wide, and was built using
350,000 m3of concrete خرسانة along with 47,000 metric tons of reinforced steel.
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