The Chinese tunnel boring machine (TBM) passed an acceptance test of Portugal and will be exported to the country in May, said the Tianjin branch of China Railway Engineering Equipment Group on Thursday. For 5,5km Lisbon drainage tunnel...

13 Months to the arrival of the Tunnel Boring Machine and the teams to start the boring under the canal for the tunnel of Línea 3 del Metro (Panama Metro Line 3). This was reported by Radio Panama. The construction of the 5.3...

Aussie company Terratec delivered a 4.27-m diameter Earth Pressure Balanced Tunnel Boring Machine for a project in Thailand. TERRATEC delivers the new 4.27m dia. EPB TBM that will be used by Contractor Nawarat Patanakarn PCL to supply the...

German company Herrenknecht has completed factory tests of Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) Shakti, according to Metro Rail News. The 9.1metre diameter hard rock Herrenknecht TBM of model S1310 is one of TBMs to bore 10317 metres of total 13123 metre...

Polish site gospodarkamorska writes that a ship which called at Gdansk port will transport a TBM from Antwerp to Mumbai. The ship's name is Nowowiejski. Anybody know for which project it is? What brand is TBM? Thank...

https://twitter.com/BowinnMa/status/1485731614621528064 British Columbia State minister Bowinn Ma tweets that the two TBMs for the Broadway Subway have passed the factory acceptance tests in Germany and will be arriving in Vancouver in...

A 'German Tunnel Boring Machine' to arrive at Placeres, Galicia, Spain in February. It will be used in excavating an outfall tunnel for the 3,5km long pipe of Placeres treatment plant. Faro de Vigo writes that La Xunta (the collevtive...

Acciona Ferrovial Joint Venture chooses Herrenknecht to order two hard rock, gripper TBMs. Herrenknecht has won an international tender to provide two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) for the AU$1.96bn central tunnelling package of Australia’s...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU1uE9ZrDUQ China CRCHI manufactures giant TBM for Sri Lanka. China Railway Construction Heavy Industry Corporation (CRCHI) produced in Changsha, China.It is for water project in Sri Lanka. It is for irrigation and...

After a voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, the mighty tunnel boring machines, which will dig the tunnels for Metrolinx' Scarborough Subway Extension and the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension, arrived in the ports of Oshawa and...

The consortium of contractors Aktor-Arcada-Alstom has ordered 4 Tunnel Boring Machines for Romania Brașov - Sighișoara railway tunnels. Work has two double-tube tunnels. 5 and 7 kilometers respectively. 3 other tunnels. Economica gets the news...

The Tunnel Boring Machine manufacturer E-BERK has the TBM ready for Adıyaman Koçali water tunnel in Turkey. Project owner is DSİ (State Waterworks) The E-BERK TBM has a diameter of 4,80 meters. It is single shield. There was a ceremony...

On behalf of its group company, JIMT, TERRATEC delivers the first two of four EPBMs that will be used by Obayashi Corporation for the underground works on Taiwan Taoyuan Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Green Line GC03. On behalf of JIM Technology...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpBUk7Uvzz0 Manila Times: Undersecretary for Railways Timothy John Batan said that two boring machines for the Metro Manila Subway Project (MMSP) arrived in April for Metro Manila Subway Project (MMSP) ready for...

Changsha Second Industrial Park of China Railway Construction Heavy Industry Group (CRCHI) manufacture first China own brand Tunnel Boring Machine for Philippines. First time Chinese brand export Philippines. Rock TBM 4,8 metre diameter 1000...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x4igzBxwLM China company CREG deliver giant TBM for Georgia. Diameter 15.08 meters. Length 182 meter. Weight  3,900 tonnes. CREG TBM is for expressway tunnel construction in Georgia.  

  Around a year ago I had written about the Chinese - German competition to supply a tunnel boring machine for Auckland's City Rail Link: New Zealand is the home of an important battleground for Chinese and German Tunnel Boring...

First large-diameter open TBM in China "Yuecheng Liangshan" start boring Daliangshan No. 1 tunnel on the Leshan-Xichang highway in Sichuan Province on October 13. The Lexi high-speed TBM equipment (DG785) has excavation diameter of...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhKawvi59vU Xinhua inform China Railway Engineering Equipment Group Co., Ltd. (CREG) finish 1000 TBM in factory. CREG is biggest Tunnel Boring Machine producer in China. CREG is big export business.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK7lXMM_5v0 Turkish tunnel boring machine manufacturer E-BERK wants to manufacture the 18m diameter TBM for the big İstanbul tunnel. E-BERK officials talked in the tunnel breakthrough ceremony for the TBM...