The 150m-long cable that was connected on 9 March marked the exact halfway point for stay cable installations on the south pylon.
It is the 31st cable to be connected on the cable-stayed bridge being built over the River Mersey near Liverpool, northwest England.
The Mersey Gateway's main bridge consists of four spans supported by three towers of varying height. The total length of the structure, including the 1,000m-long cable-stayed bridge and approach viaducts, is 2.13km.
When complete, 146 stay cables will support the reinforced concrete bridge, with a combined load-bearing weight of over 53,000 tonnes.
Each stay cable consists of up to 91 individual steel strands; over 1,300km of strands will be used on the project.
The stay cables vary in length with the shortest measuring approximately 41m and the longest measuring 226m.
The first of the stay cables was installed in October 2016. Around six stays per week are currently being installed from the three pylons.
Merseylink was appointed by Halton Borough Council in 2014 on a 30-year contract to design, build, finance and operate the project. Its equity partners are Macquarie Capital Group Limited, BBGI, and FCC Construcción. The construction joint venture is made up of Kier Infrastructure and Overseas Limited, Samsung C&T Corporation and FCC Construcción.
