The tunnel boring machines for Line 2 of the Lima Metro are ready to start their journey to Peru

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17/02/2016

The tunnel boring machines for Line 2 of the Lima Metro are ready to start their journey to Peru

After completing the technical revision process of the tunnel boring machines, the two TBMs are ready to be sent to Peru. They will start drilling work on the tunnel construction of Line 2 of the Lima Metro, in the Andean capital city located on the Pacific coast, which FCC is constructing and which will connect the Ate and Callao districts.

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The tunnel boring machines for Line 2 of the Lima Metro are ready to start their journey to Peru

The entourage that participated in the official handover ceremony in Germany, comprised Jessica Gonzales, Executive Director of AATE, and Carmen Deulofeu, General Manager of the Metro de Lima Line 2 Consortium.

According to José Gallardo Ku, the Minister for Transport and Communications, the two acquired machines, built by Herrenknecht, will be disassembled to be sent to the Callao port in the forthcoming weeks.

Once in Peru, they will be reassembled so they can simultaneously work on constructing the tunnel through which Lima's new mass transport system will run.

The Executive Director of AATE said that both machines will allow the tunnel to be bored and to position the reinforce concrete structure that will cover the tunnel walls, while a conveyor belt will transport the extracted material so it can be taken away.

The civil servant explained that the entourage visited not only Germany, but also Line 5 of the Milan Metro in Italy. In Milan they saw similar operations to those that will commence in Peru with automatic trains, in other words, without drivers, which allows trains to run more often.

Carmen Deulofeu said that the two tunnel boring machines were acquired by the Metro de Lima Line 2 Consortium, led by FCC and ACS, which won the tender to construct and operate the modern, mass passenger transport system.

"This transport system will transport, once inaugurated, around 600 thousand passengers per day between Lima and Callao in just 45 minutes, easing congestion on the roads that link Ate to the main port. This journey currently takes over 2.5 hours," she said.