Liebherr machines at Suez Canal
14 February 2017 by Sotiris KanarisA Liebherr LR 1160 crawler has joined nine Liebherr duty machines for the construction of two road tunnels under the Suez Canal near the city of Port Said in North Egypt.
The duty cycle machines are erecting slurry walls with a total area of 520,000m² at both the east and the west of the Suez Canal for access roads as well as shafts for subsequent tunnel excavations.
The construction of the tunnels is part of an Egyptian infrastructure project with immense dimensions. New tunnels are not only being built at Port Said but also further south at Ismailia.
The project also includes the widening and deepening of the existing shipping lane of the canal, as well as the construction of a completely new lane with a length of approximately 35km in the northern section.
