A high-speed train passing through a tunnel in Japan comes in contact with a geological survey drill. Only a coincidence of drills lining prevents a disaster https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/13060489

  Normally after boring tunnels, celibrations are made with the `dignitaries` give self-praising nonsense speeches but you do not hear often that actually the TBMs themselves are celebrated. But Kolkata Metro bid farewell specifically for...

  Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) announced that its first Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) has officially broken through to connect with the Wilshire/Western subway station in...

  The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority unveils two new tunnel boring machines on June 17 for the authority’s $9.3-billion Purple Line Extension (PLE) project. Manufactured in Germany by Herrenknecht AG, the...

  CREG introduces WORLD'S FIRST WATER JET TBM. It is NOT prototype. It is for use in Wan’anxi Water Diversion Project in Longyan City in Fujian Province. With water jet technology, less damage to TBM. Click at text under...

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-06/06/c_138119988_5.htm

Finally Hyperloop arrives in continental Europe. As a vision at least. The Netherlands-based technology company Hard Hyperloop proposes a hyperloop link between Amsterdam and Frankfurt which would shorten the 450 kilometer journey to a whopping 50...

Dutch start-up Hardt showed off on Thursday Europe’s first fully operational hyperloop system in a 30-meters ‘low speed’ test tunnel in Delft. For the former students of TU Delft, this is a new milestone, six years after winning...

Italian construction company Impresa Pizzarotti & CSpA, which won the contract for the construction of a road tunnel in Morocco is suing the AABV for failing to pay for the cost of construction and the penalties for the delayed payment....

  China Railway Engineering Equipment Group Co., Ltd. (CREG) said it has rolled off the tunnel boring machine (TBM), which will be exported to Italy for a high-speed railway building project linking Milan and Verona. The machine, finished...

China’s high-tech TBM will help build high-speed railway project linking Milan and Verona https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/06/article/cregs-giant-tunnel-bore-bound-for-milan/

CREG again exports to a European country. http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-06h/24/c_138168316.htm

From TBM, an orbituary about Richard James Robbins: https://tunnelingonline.com/im-memoriam-dick-robbins/

Good day I am planning to buy this book by British Tunnelling Society - Institution of Civil Engineers (England).   Tunnel Lining Design Guide   Publisher: Thomas Telford Publishing (January 1, 2004) ISBN-10:...

From American Vice magazine: A state-owned railroad company based in central China has begun transforming itself into one of the planet's top producers of high-tech TBMs. This company has shipped huge machines abroad to countries Israel,...

  I have been away from TunnelContact.com for a while, after the affair regarding my blog about some industry interaction. I would like to help everyone for their support. A short while ago I have read a UN report about the World...

  Finnish entrepreneur Peter Vesterbacka proposes a 100 kilometer-long Helsinki-Tallinn tunnel connecting the capitals of the Finland and Estonia. It is thought of as a part of the wider Rail Baltica...

I read this yesterday evening and I would like to share it here. It is great reading. The article (from Tunnel Business Magazine) is about the Brenner Base Tunnel, the 64 kilometers-long railway tunnel between Austria and Italy. Apperantly it...

The proposed 270km-long train link between Lyon and Turin, which would also have one of the longest rail tunnels in the world, risks being shelved following EU elections. Italy's 5-star movement is against the project due tothe cost and...

  In China's Qingdao city, a subway construction site collapses. causing the death of 5 people working in the construction. Another reminder that ours is a high-risk profession and has no room for...