Boudewijn Bridge

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The Boudewijn Bridge is a bridge in the Antwerp harbour area on the right bank of the Scheldt. The bridge is located over the southeastern head of the Baudouinsluis, the entrance to the port. There is also a single-track railway running over the bridge (rail line 221), but it is now dead after the Boudewijnbrug. If this bridge is open to shipping traffic, road traffic can still pass the lock along the Meestoof Bridge at the other head of the lock, but trains can no longer do so.

Replacement bridge: The Boudewijn Bridge was a bascule bridge of the Strauss type. Since the steel structure had come to the end of its lifetime, in 2019 it was decided to replace the old bridge with a roller bridge. The old bridge was completely decommissioned for security reasons at the end of November 2019 and demolished in June 2020. The opening of the new bridge was foreseen in autumn 2021. The works were outsourced to the Belgian Jan De Zero Group for approximately 29 million. The Belgian contractor and the Spanish subcontractor for the construction of the steel construction came to a legal dispute with the Flemish government, anno 2025 still pending before the Court of First Instance in...