Martrou Transporter Bridge
Mechanization of the carriage

by DEP Engineering

Customer: DRAC (Poitiers) - CARO (Communauté d'Agglomération Rochefort Océan).

The Martrou Transporteur Bridge, built in 1900 by Ferdinand Arnodin in Rochefort, is an emblematic metallic structure. It allows the river to be crossed via a suspended gondola, without hindering river navigation. Ranked Historical Monument it's one of the last of its kind still in opration. It is a testament the french engineers genius of that period.

Basic design

Detailed design

Calculation note

Production supervision

Operation (assistance)

This particular structure is a historical monument that incorporates both a civil-engineering structure and a ropeway.

A new wire rope motorisation system was installed when the gondola was re-commissioned in 1993, in compliance with ropeways regulations.

Since 1993, we have been monitoring and controlling the equipment from the point of view of both civil-engineering structure (suspension bridge) and the ropeway (motion of the gondola).