Suez Canal Tunnel
Introduction
The Ahmed Hamdi Tunnel[1] (Arabic: نفق الشهيد أحمد حمدي) is a car tunnel under the Suez Canal in Egypt.
Description
It has two traffic lanes, one in each direction, and connects the Sinai Peninsula of Asia to the city of Suez on the African continent.
It was originally built as a shield tunnel by the Tarmac group in 1981. In 1992, the Japanese government granted aid to a project to rehabilitate the leaking tunnel. It is 1.63 km long and has an outer diameter of 11.6 m.
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• - Annex:Large tunnels.
References
- [1] ↑ «Ahmed Hamdi Tunnel» (en inglés). Consultado el 9 de enero de 2014.: http://www.nccnet.co.jp/english/introduction/suezcanal.html