Montenegro: Mala Rijeka Viaduct
Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of T&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found at The highway, ultimately intended to link the Adriatic port of Bar to Serbia’s capital Belgrade, has been a symbol of Montenegro’s desire to build a state even before it declared independence in 2006. But its problematic construction has come to exemplify China’s divisive investment on the fringes of the EU and the pitfalls of funding large infrastructure projects with loans from Beijing. The project was started in 1969 and was completed in 1973. The viaduct is metres (1,636 ft) long and at its highest is 200 metres (660 ft) above the Mala Rijeka (pronounced [mâːlaː rijɛ̌ka], meaning literally Little river). It is also the longest bridge on the Belgrade–Bar railway.[2] When constructed it was the highest railway bridge in the world, surpassing the record height previously held by the Fades viaduct in France. It held the record until 2001 when the Beipan River Shuibai Railway Bridge, a concrete arch bridge, was completed in Guizhou, China. Multiple railway bridges under construction in China will also be higher.[3]
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Location: Mala Rijeka River, Montenegro
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