New Zealand receives 10th largest TBM

摘要

The New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) announced that it will receive the world's 10th largest tunnel boring machine (TBM) for the construction of the twin 2.4-km- (1.5-mile-) long Waterview Connections tunnels in Auckland, which are part of the largest road construction project in New Zealand's history. The state-of-the-art machine was designed and built over 14 months at Germany's Herrenknecht factory in Guangzhou, south China's " Guangdong province, specifically for this project. It will create tunnels wide enough for three lanes of traffic for Auckland's expanding motorway system.