Morocco-Spain Undersea Tunnel Project Revived Ahead of 2030 World Cup

The Spanish government has recently tasked the public engineering company Ineco with carrying out a new preliminary project for the tunnel, based on the first preliminary project developed in 2007. The document should be ready by mid-2026. The tunnel, 38.7 km long, with 27.8 km underwater, aims to facilitate the movement of people and goods between Europe and Africa, recalls La Razón.

However, its depth remains one of the problems to be solved due to the complexity of the Strait of Gibraltar area. To be viable, the Morocco-Spain tunnel should have a depth of around 300 to 400 meters, four times greater than that of the Channel Tunnel linking England and France, which is between 40 and 75 meters deep.

According to the National Society for the Study of the Strait of Gibraltar (SNED) of Morocco, the deepest point of the Strait would be 475 meters below the sea. On this basis, the tunnel should connect Punta Paloma, in southern Spain, and Malabata, east of Tangier, in Morocco. The financing of the project is also one of the obstacles to its launch. According to SNED, the construction of the tunnel under the Strait would require an investment of more than 7 billion euros.