Bohai Strait tunnel

Bohai Strait Tunnel project (red line)

The Bohai Strait Tunnel or Dalian-Yantai Tunnel project proposes the construction of a transoceanic tunnel to connect Dalian on the Liaodong Peninsula to Yantai on the Shandong Peninsula. Another name for the project is Cross-Bohai-Strait channel.[1]

Crossing the Bohai Strait the tunnel would be 123 km long, 90 km of it under water, thus exceeding the combined lengths of the Seikan tunnel and the Channel tunnel that are currently the longest undersea tunnels on Earth.[2]

Operated by China Railway Engineering Corporation the tunnel would be linked to the highspeed railway system of China. Cars would be loaded on railway carriages to make the 40 minute crossing. Currently there is a ferry service, the 2007 inaugurated Bohai Train Ferry, that crosses the strait in eight hours.[2]

The project is estimated to cost 200 billion yuan (US$32 billion). It was reported in August 2014 that work is likely to commence during the 13th Five-year plan and construction would take ten years to complete.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "NPC deputies propose Cross-Bohai-Strait channel". Chinadaily. March 11, 2013. Retrieved July 15, 2013.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Minnie Chan (July 12, 2013). "Plan to build world's longest undersea tunnel from Dalian to Yantai". South China Morning Post. Retrieved July 14, 2013.
  3. ↑ "China likely to commence construction of world's biggest undersea rail tunnel in 2016". Ecns.cn. 2014-08-22. Retrieved 2014-08-24.