Workers in China have completed a 21-day operation to replace 104 cutting tools on a giant tunnel boring machine deep beneath the seabed. The 16.18-km Jintang tunnel will connect the Zhoushan islands with Chinas high-speed rail network and become the worlds longest undersea high-speed rail tunnel.

Deep beneath the waters off eastern China, engineers are carrying out one of the most demanding stages of construction on a high-speed railway tunnel. The Jintang undersea tunnel,…

Workers in China have completed a 21-day operation to replace 104 cutting tools on a giant tunnel boring machine deep beneath the seabed. The 16.18-km Jintang tunnel will connect…