2nd excavator for Hanoi metro construction arrives
By Dat Nguyen January 12, 2021 | 11:24 am GMT+7
The second tunnel boring machine of the Nhon-Hanoi Railway Station metro section arrives in the northern city of Hai Phong on January 11, 2020. Photo courtesy of the Hanoi Metropolitan Railway Management Board.
The second tunnel boring machine required for the construction of Hanoi’s second metro line has arrived from Germany and will be assembled in the next three months.
It has landed in a Hai Phong City port and will be taken to Hanoi this month for drilling for the Nhon-Hanoi Railway Station metro line.
The machine, manufactured by German firm Herrenkechtm, is more than 100 meters long and weighs over 850 tons. It can drill 10 meters of tunnel per day.