Massive equipment: Workers at a tunnel boring machine (TBM) manufacturing facility in China, that China Railway Tunnelling Equipment Co Ltd in tends to replicate in Malaysia to refurbish TBMs, provided it could find a suitable site.
THE MRT tunnelling work is currently going full steam and according to MRT Corp CEO Datuk Wira Azhar Abdul Hamid, the final 10% of drilling through the most critical areas will continue until the end of July.
This is not the first time Malaysians have seen a tunnel boring machine (TBM). The nation saw the use of one such machine during the contruction of the SMART Tunnel over a decade ago.
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