DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has given approval of the work order of the main part of much-talked-about Padma Bridge.

Communications Minister Obaidul Quader made the disclosure while talking to journalists at his secretariat office on Monday.

He told the journalists that the work order has been given to the China Major Bridge Engineering Company (MBEC).

The MBEC mainly specializes in the scientific research, survey and design, construction, supervision for all kinds of bridges, highways, harbor and seashore projects, city light railways, water irrigation, buildings as well as manufacture of engineering machinery, drilling equipment, pre-cast concrete products, huge steel structure making while engages ship making and repairing, transportation, leasing, facility and structure erection, and the relative technical consultation and engineering supervision.

The MBEC installed the piles of world’s longest cable-stayed bridge, 2,680km (main span) JiaShao Bridge in China.

The MBEC provided 78 percent design service and undertook 52.5 percent construction work of Hangzhou Bay Bridge of China, the longest sea-crossing bridge in the world.

BDST: 1635 HRS, JUN 02, 2014