Germany/China

Double-Decker Tunnel to cross under the Yangtze River

By 2017 the metro network of central China’s metropolis Wuhan will be extended from three to seven lines Quelle/credit: Herrenknecht
By 2017 the metro network of central China’s metropolis Wuhan will be extended from three to seven lines
Quelle/credit: Herrenknecht
Front, left to right: Martin Herrenknecht, Chairman of the Board of Management Herrenknecht AG, and Yu Xuanping, General Manager of Shanghai Tunnel Engineering have signed the contract for the Wuhan TBMs. In the back, left to right: German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs Sigmar Gabriel, and the German Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, Michael Clauss Quelle/credit: Frank Ossenbrink
Front, left to right: Martin Herrenknecht, Chairman of the Board of Management Herrenknecht AG, and Yu Xuanping, General Manager of Shanghai Tunnel Engineering have signed the contract for the Wuhan TBMs. In the back, left to right: German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs Sigmar Gabriel, and the German Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, Michael Clauss
Quelle/credit: Frank Ossenbrink

In the course of the visit to China by the German Minister of Economy and Energy, Sigmar Gabriel, a contract was signed on April 23, 2014 in Kunshan (Jiangsu Province) for the delivery of two tunnel boring machines for a large multifunctional tunnel in Wuhan (central China). The 10 million metropolis of Wuhan is the most important transport hub in central China. By 2017 the metro network of three lines will be extended to seven lines, from the current 73 km to 215 km in length.

The two Mixshields with an excavation diameter of 15.76 m to be supplied by Herrenknecht will cross under the Yangtze...

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