300 ton robot completed the first metro tunnel in Vietnam a month soon

On the morning of October 31, the Ho Chi Minh City Urban Railway Management Board and the consortium of contractors Shimizu - Maeda (Japan) held a ceremony to welcome TBM tunnel boring machine to the City Theater station - completing the eastern tunnel drilling of the section. underground Ba Son.

Mr. Le Nguyen Minh Quang - Head of Ho Chi Minh City Urban Railway Management Board, said that after more than 5 months of construction, the TBM tunnel boring machine had completed 781m, assembled 3,900 tunnel covers of the Eastern tunnel.

This tunnel goes from Ba Son station across Ton Duc Thang and Ngo Van Nam streets, the area of ​​3a Ton Duc Thang, Nguyen Sieu, Hai Ba Trung, goes between the City Theater and Caravell hotel, crosses Dong Khoi street to the City Theater station.

Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien metro tunnel completed 1 month ahead of schedule.(Photo: MQ).

TBM tunnel boring machine is 70m long, weighs 300 tons of metro tunnel drilling.(Photo: MQ).

After completion of the east tunnel drilling, the TBM tunnel boring machine will be dismantled and returned to Ba Son station to continue drilling the western tunnel to create two single tunnel tunnels with a length of 781m.

Inside Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien metro tunnel has just been completed.(Photo: Ngoc Tien).

TBM tunnel boring machine will be dismantled and returned to Ba Son station to continue drilling in the western tunnel.(Photo: MQ).

Mr. Akito Takahashi - Deputy Representative of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) office in Vietnam said that this is the first time that Japan's advanced shield technology uses TBM underground drilling machine applied in construction of urban projects in Vietnam, helping to reduce the impact on traffic and daily life of people .

This is the first time that Japan's advanced shield technology has used the TBM underground drilling machine to be applied in urban construction in Vietnam.(Photo: MQ).

Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Tran Vinh Tuyen judged that this is a very meaningful event, marking the time of moving to a new phase in the process of constructing metro line 1. With the efforts of Japanese experts also as Vietnamese engineers have brought the first underground project of the whole country to the city with excellent progress exceeding the one-month plan.

'In recent years, despite many difficulties in capital as well as procedures but with the support of ministries, Government as well as the Party Committee, City Council, I believe that we will take the route. Metro No. 1 went into operation in late 2020 ' , Mr. Tuyen said.