China News Agency, Jakarta, February 18 (Reporter Lin Yongchuan) On the afternoon of the 18th local time, the longest tunnel of the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed rail line in Indonesia, the No. 6 tunnel, was successfully completed.
It marks the major progress made in another key control project of the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed rail line, laying a solid foundation for the completion and opening of the entire line.
The No. 6 tunnel of the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway is located in Puwakada, northwest of Bandung City, Indonesia. It is constructed by China Railway Third Bureau Group, a member of the Chinese construction consortium led by China Railway International Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China National Railway Group.
With a total length of 4,478 meters, the tunnel is the longest tunnel on the entire Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway line.
According to the person in charge of the construction party, the tunnel belongs to a low-mountain hilly area. The geology is clay, mudstone, and volcanic breccia accumulated by early volcanic eruptions. The groundwater level in the tunnel is high, and the tunnel passes through shallow buried layers for a long distance. Difficulty.
Since the start of construction in August 2018, the China Railway Yawan High-speed Railway Project Department has adopted a variety of construction methods such as advanced geological forecasting, additional locking feet, and side wall grouting according to the characteristics of different locations to ensure construction progress and construction safety.
Since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, the project department has taken a number of measures to strengthen epidemic prevention management, ensure the health and safety of employees, and reasonably arrange the construction progress to ensure that both epidemic prevention and construction are correct.
During the construction of the project, local employees were also actively employed to donate anti-epidemic materials.
Over the past three years, it has hired more than 1,200 local employees, trained 26 local skilled workers, and built 11.2 kilometers of access roads for 15 villages along the route.
The Jakarta-Bandung high-speed rail linking the Indonesian capital Jakarta and the fourth largest city Bandung is a landmark project for the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” and pragmatic cooperation between China and Indonesia, as well as a national strategic project in Indonesia.
The line has a total length of 142.3 kilometers and a design speed of 350 kilometers per hour.
After completion and opening to traffic, the travel time from Jakarta to Bandung will be shortened from the current three hours to 40 minutes.
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