Six Chinese companies plan to pay $700 million to buy 51% of a road and rail bridge over Turkey’s Bosporus,

reporte Russian Railways Partner. Opened five years ago, Yavuz Sultan Selim is a toll bridge with eight lanes for cars and trucks and two rail tracks. Located at the Black Sea entrance to the Bosporus, the 2.1 km long suspension bridge is the third highest in the world, built to allow freighter traffic below. Included in the deal is the bridge’s access highway, the Northern Ring Road. The Chinese consortium is composed of: China Merchants Expressway, CMU, Zheijiang Expressway, Jiangsu Expressway, Sichuan Expressway, and Anhui Expressway.