February 2 (SeeNews) - A consortium led by Slovenia's Kolektor CPG has completed the digging of 43% of the tunnels on the second track of the Divaca-Koper railway line, state-run project company 2TDK said.
The contractors advance by more than 100 meters of tunnels per day, thus passing the threshold of 16 km of main and service pipes on January 31, 2TDK said in a statement earlier this week.
The breakthrough of Skofija, the third-longest tunnel on the route, will be completed soon, as only 200 metres of the main pipe remain to be excavated, while the digging of the 6,709 m-long Lokev tunnel is completed at one-third, 2TDK said.
The consortium comprising Kolektor CPG and Turkey's Yapi Merkezi and Ozaltin will have to complete the works on about 37,000 metres of tunnels as part of the project.
Earlier this month, Slovenia's government extended the deadline for the construction of a second track of the Divaca-Koper railway line to the middle of 2026 from the end of 2025. The government also increased the estimated investment value of the remaining works to 1.027 billion euro ($1.13 billion) from 940 million euro.
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