Pulau Muara Besar Bridge is a dual-carriageway bridge which connects

Pulau Muara Besar Muara Besar Island (, Abbrev: ) is an island in Mukim Serasa, Brunei–Muara District, Brunei. The island is essential for the Brunei–China relations due to its part in the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative. It can be noted that the island ma ...

(PMB), an island on

Brunei Bay Brunei Bay () is on the northwestern coast of Borneo island, in Brunei and Malaysia. It is located east of Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. It is the ocean gateway to the isolated Temburong District of Brunei, separated from the rest of Brunei by th ...

, with the mainland of

Brunei Brunei, officially Brunei Darussalam, is a country in Southeast Asia, situated on the northern coast of the island of Borneo. Apart from its coastline on the South China Sea, it is completely surrounded by the Malaysian state of Sarawak, with ...

via Serasa in Brunei-Muara District.

Construction

By linking PMB to the mainland at Serasa, the bridge is anticipated to facilitate utility connectivity as well as the island's industrial growth. A Korean–Brunei collaboration was chosen to provide project consulting in August 2012 following an open procurement in 2011. The bridge's original concept was for it to connect to a proposed road that would travel to an industrial location on the eastern end of the island, crossing Brunei Bay from Serasa industrial park to the southwest side of PMB. After stakeholder talks to establish bridge and utility standards, engineering design work was scheduled, and by late 2012, a request for proposal for construction was anticipated. The construction began in 2015 and completed in May 2018; it was undertaken by

China Harbour Engineering Company China Harbour Engineering Company Ltd (CHEC) is an engineering contractor and a subsidiary of China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), providing infrastructure construction, such as marine engineering, dredging and reclamation, road a ...

at a cost of B$260 million or US$204 million. The bridge is part of the road infrastructure that will serve the petrochemical refinery plant on the island, which is currently under construction, and is a Chinese

foreign direct investment A foreign direct investment (FDI) is an ownership stake in a company, made by a foreign investor, company, or government from another country. More specifically, it describes a controlling ownership an asset in one country by an entity based i ...

. Upon completion, the bridge is long and wide. At present, access to the bridge is restricted to authorised personnels of the project.

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