INFRASTRUCTURE

Tunnel brings France and Italy closer together

A rail tunnel of superlatives will be built under Mont Cenis between Lyon and Turin, bringing the two European countries even closer together in the future.

 Together with representatives of the client and customer, Martin Herrenknecht presses the start button that triggers the rotation of the cutterhead on the fourth TBM out of five order for the tunnelling between Lyon and Turin

Together with representatives of the client and customer, Martin Herrenknecht presses the start button that triggers the rotation of the cutterhead on the fourth TBM out of five order for the tunnelling between Lyon and Turin

The entire section, which will be 57.5km long, will be created using five tunnel boring machines from the German company Herrenknecht, three have already been delivered and a fourth has just been accepted...

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