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Tunnel borer being assembled to start work on new Athens metro line
ekathimerini-com   28 March 2023   Greece   athens  
[Nikos Tachiaos/Facebook]
<p>The first of two massive tunnel borers that will be put to work on the extension of the Athens metro is being assembled, the president of Attiko Metro SA announced on Tuesday.</p>
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Silvertown Tunnel cutter head lowered into shaft
Construction Enquirer   01 August 2022   UK  
<p>The Silvertown Tunnel project reached another major milestone last week as the cutter head for the Tunnel Boring Machine was lowered into the shaft</p>
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Webuild starts digging next section of 64km tunnel under the Alps
Global Construction Review   25 July 2022   Austria   Alps  
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<p>Italy&rsquo;s Webuild and Swiss joint-venture partner Implenia have started boring one of the longest sections of the 64km Brenner Base Tunnel, set to carry a railway between Italy and Austria under the Alps.<br />Lot H41, from Gola del Sill, near Innsbruck, ...
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Mumbai to receive largest tunnel boring machine from China in February for BMC's coastal road project
The Free Press Journal   30 December 2019   India   Mumbai  
Mumbai coastal road projectImage source: Field Services On Demand/Twitter
<p>Mumbai will get yet another tunnel boring machine but not for Metro 3 project, this time it will be for coastal road project. Reports have surfaced saying that the city will receive its largest tunnel boring machine from China in February for BMC's coastal ...
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Under wraps: Sydney's first rail tunnel dug beneath harbour
The Sydney Morning Herald   21 November 2019   Australia   Sydney  
Tunnel boring machine Kathleen being assembled at the site of the new Barangaroo metro station before she started tunnelling under the harbour.
<p>It was a historic moment that passed Sydney by.<br />Without any public fanfare, a giant tunnel boring machine named Kathleen has completed digging the first rail tunnel under Sydney Harbour for a new metro train line.<br />So unremarked has been the occasion ...
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Tunnel Boring Machine For Whitby Mine Arrives
Yorkshire Coast Radio News   18 February 2019   UK  
Published by Alex Taylor at 9:21am 18th February 2019.
<p>An 1,800 tonne tunnel boring machine to construct the tunnel from Whitby to Teesside as part of the Sirius Minerals' project has arrived.<br />The main parts of the 225-metre-long machine arrived at AV Dawson&rsquo;s Heavy Lift Port on the Teesside Docks ...
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China's largest homemade slurry tunnel boring machine rolls off production line
XinhuaNet   29 September 2018   China   Henan Province  
China's largest slurry tunnel boring machine (TBM) rolls off the production line in Zhengzhou, capital of central China's Henan Province, Sept. 29, 2018
<p>ZHENGZHOU, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- China's largest slurry tunnel boring machine (TBM) rolled off the production line in Zhengzhou, capital of central China's Henan Province, on Saturday.<br />TBMs are used to excavate tunnels using a circular cross section ...
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Tunnel boring machine 'Blanche' blasts through at wastewater treatment plant
<p>The Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) called 'Blanche' at Watercare's Army Bay wastewater treatment plant has travelled 600 metres&mdash; a third of the way on its journey from the plant to the transition point, 500 metres into the sea.<br />The machine isn't ...
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Final breakthrough in gigantic road tunnels at the Suez Canal
highways.today   05 January 2018   Egypt  
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.
<p>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 (&Oslash; 13,020 mm), the third of four Herrenknecht Mixshields, completed tunnelling for the first of ...
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