First TBM for Malaysian MRTready

摘要

The first TBM for the MRT Sungai-Buloh-Kajang project is now ready for delivery to Malaysia. The machine, which is expected to be in use by May 2013, took nine months to be put together and is now being dismantled and prepared for shipping to Malaysia from Herrenknecht's factory in Germany. The TBM will undertake tunnelling works from the Cochrane, Kampung Pandan area to Pasar Rakyat in Kuala Lumpur under the MRT project. It is one of 10 machines worth MYR 450M (USD 148M)to be used for boring a 9.5km underground tunnel between Jalan Semantan and Taman Maluri, covering seven underground stations.