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ElbX: Tunnel Breakthrough at the Elbe Crossing

Assembly of the ElbX-TBM in the launch shaft, allowing a look inside the highly complex technology of the Mixshield Credit/Quelle: Herrenknecht
Assembly of the ElbX-TBM in the launch shaft, allowing a look inside the highly complex technology of the Mixshield
Credit/Quelle: Herrenknecht
On 22 June 2026, the TBM-drive of the ElbX tunnel under the Elbe River was finished successfully Credit/Quelle: Herrenknecht
On 22 June 2026, the TBM-drive of the ElbX tunnel under the Elbe River was finished successfully
Credit/Quelle: Herrenknecht

On 22 June 2026, the ElbX tunnel project commissioned by TenneT Germany celebrated the TBM-breakthrough. The tunnelling works, part of the large-scale SuedLink project, will connect Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony over a distance of around 5.2 km. The Elbe crossing is one of the key sections of the power line, which will in future transport renewable energy from the north to the south of Germany.

20 Metres Below the Riverbed of the Elbe

For the construction of the tunnel, the ARGE Tunnel ElbX consortium (Porr and Wayss & Freytag Ingenieurbau AG) ordered a tunnel boring machine (TBM) from...

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