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The Port of Copenhagen

In spite of the fact that the new “Provestenshavn" is separ­ ated from the Port proper, it is in easy communication with the latter and with the city via the Island of Amager, to which leads a 700 metre iron concrete bridge and dam, on which a road has been built and railway tracks laid in connection with the railway lines of the Danish State Railways. The bulwarks proper as well as the quay walls encircling the filled-up area are of iron piling and the land-areas have been filled up by means of sand. The breakwaters have been built of rocks and the pier-heads of reinforced concrete cais­ sons. The whole plant is estimated to cost 6.9 million kroner. The New “ KnippeIsbro“ On December 17th, 1937, the new “Knippelsbro“ was opened to traffic. The work in connection with this large bridge, which has been built jointly by the Copenhagen Muni­ cipality and the Copenhagen Port Authority, has been in pro­ gress since 1935. This new bridge, which substitutes that built in 1908, is one of the two bridges connecting the City districts on Zealand with those on the Island of Amager. Across “Knippelsbro1 there is a daily traffic between 6 a.m. and 6 p. m. of about 9,600 vehicles, 46,000 cyclists and 12,000 pedestrians, and in the same time the bridge has to be opened about 50 times on an average for the passage of 75 ships. As the new bridge had to be built on the same site as the old one — and was connected with an extended main thorough­ fare, direction East-West, through the entire inner portion of the city — it was necessary during the period of construction to direct the traffic over a temporary bridge, which has been in use since 1934. The navigation passage through the new bridge has been increased from 23 metres to 35 metres. Traffic conditions have been greatly improved, as the bridge has a

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