Morocco’s High-Speed Rail Project: 3km Tunnel Construction Underway in Rabat

The construction of a railway tunnel of more than 3 km in Rabat as part of the Kenitra-Marrakech high-speed line project is taking shape. The Chinese company Sinohydro, an entity of the Chinese group PowerChina, which has launched the main works of the project, is at the helm.
The Chinese company Sinohydro began on May 10 the construction of the main structure of the high-speed line tunnel in Rabat, reports Barlamane.com, adding that the Chinese company’s teams launched the preparatory phase after receiving the service order on December 30, 2024. Thanks to the use of a fragmented temporary installation - an atypical process in the Moroccan context - Sinohydro has accelerated the procedures. Thus, the control mission gave the green light for this phase on April 4.
This tunnel will have a length of 3300 meters. It will connect the Bouregreg wadi to the Rabat Agdal station through a 2750-meter long single-tube double-track tunnel, a 50-meter uncovered open-air zone, and a 500-meter covered trench with 4 tracks. The structure should contribute decisively to increasing the transport capacity of the national network, while playing a structuring role by 2030, the year when Morocco will co-host the football World Cup along with Spain and Portugal. Its technical commissioning should take place by 2028.
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