Bay Bridge’s troubled China connection

How Caltrans’ choice of an inexperienced company left structural doubts and cost taxpayersbay-bridge

By Charles Pillercpiller@sacbee.com, The Sacramento Bee

The Chinese company hired to build key parts of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge had never built a bridge.

Shanghai Zhenhua Port Machinery Co. Ltd., after all, was a manufacturer of giant cranes for container ports.

The California Department of Transportation agreed to contract the company known as ZPMC in 2006 because it had established a reputation as fast and cost-effective, offering savings of about $250 million compared to the competing bidder … more

 

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