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Final breakthrough in gigantic road tunnels at the Suez Canal

highways.today   05 January 2018   Egypt  

On the Christmas weekend, Egyptian President H.E. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi rang in a new era for the Sinai Peninsula: on Saturday, December 23, 2017, S-960 (Ø 13,020 mm), the third of four Herrenknecht Mixshields, completed tunnelling for the first of two new twin-tube road tunnels under the Suez Canal at Ismailia. The tunnels at Port Said and Ismailia, designed to link the Sinai Peninsula more closely to the Egyptian heartland in future, will open up new economic opportunities. Instead of spending up to 5 days in long car queues for the ferry, crossing the Suez Canal via the efficient tunnels will only take 10 minutes in future.

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On December 14, 2017, the Herrenknecht Mixshield S-959 celebrated its final breakthrough. It drove one of the tunnel tubes at Port Said with top performances of up to 128 meters per week.
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