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  • Spain and Morocco Advance Plans for Underwater Tunnel Across Gibraltar Strait
    29 September 2024, by Prince

    The Spanish Society for Studies on Fixed Communication through the Strait of Gibraltar (SECEGSA) has recently launched a call for tenders for the rental with option to purchase of four seismometers in order to study the seabed of the strait as part of the project to build a tunnel connecting Spain and Morocco.
    SECEGSA wishes to obtain these four seabed seismometers (OBS) to conduct a seismotectonic research campaign in the Strait of Gibraltar over a period of six months, from the date of (…)

  • Spain Advances Gibraltar Strait Tunnel Study with Seabed Seismometer Tender
    26 October 2024, by Prince

    The Spanish government has launched a tender for the rental with an option to purchase four seismometers in order to study the seabed of the Strait of Gibraltar as part of the tunnel project with Morocco.
    The Spanish Company for Studies for Fixed Communication through the Strait of Gibraltar (SECEGSA), under the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, has launched this tender for the rental of four seabed seismometers (OBS) for the seismotectonic research campaign in the Strait of (…)

  • New developments for the Morocco-Spain tunnel
    12 November 2024, by Prince

    The Spanish Society for Studies on Fixed Communications across the Strait of Gibraltar (SECEGSA) signed on November 6 with the Madrid-based company TEKPAM Ingenieria the contract for the rental with an option to purchase of four seismometers for the seabed, as part of the project to build a tunnel connecting Spain and Morocco.
    SECEGSA approved this contract worth around 500,000 euros to acquire these seismometers that can be positioned at depths of up to 6,000 meters. The seismotectonic (…)

  • Seismometers to Study Seabed for Proposed Morocco-Spain Tunnel
    16 November 2024, by Prince

    The project of a tunnel between Morocco and Spain under the Strait of Gibraltar is progressing. The Spanish Society for Studies on Fixed Communication through the Strait of Gibraltar (SECEGSA) has officially signed the contract with TEKPAM Ingeniería, the company selected to provide the four seismometers to be used for the seabed study of the strait.
    The only one to respond to the public tender published last August by SECEGSA for the rental with option to purchase of 4 seabed (…)

  • Morocco-Spain Underwater Tunnel Project Advances with Experimental Dig Planned
    26 November 2024, by Said

    The project of a tunnel under the Strait of Gibraltar, connecting Morocco to Spain, continues to progress. Nizar Baraka, Minister of Equipment and Water, presented the latest advances of this titanic project to the Moroccan Parliament on Tuesday.
    An experimental underwater tunnel will soon be dug. The objective: to precisely analyze the technical and geological challenges of this exceptional project. For the minister, it is crucial to determine the optimal route, favoring the areas least (…)

  • Spain Revives Plans for Underwater Tunnel to Morocco
    4 December 2024, by Said

    The titanic project to connect Spain and Morocco by a tunnel under the Strait of Gibraltar is resurfacing. Long shelved, it now seems to be taking a new turn with the launch of concrete studies.
    Spain has indeed just rented four seismometers, recalls Al Ahdath Al Maghribia. These devices, intended for the study of the seabed of the strait, will be made available to the Royal Institute and the Naval Observatory in San Fernando, near Cádiz, for a period of six months. This initiative (…)

  • Spain and Morocco Revive Plans for Ambitious Gibraltar Strait Tunnel
    13 January, by Prince

    Spain and Morocco are working on the realization of the tunnel under the Strait of Gibraltar. The two countries have already invested 104 million euros - 60 and 44 million euros respectively - in this project, which should cost billions and take more than 20 years.
    The Spanish Society for Studies on Fixed Communications across the Strait of Gibraltar (SECEGSA), the public company in charge of analyzing the feasibility of the infrastructure, has received over the past two years 4.76 (…)

  • German Firm to Conduct Feasibility Study for Morocco-Spain Tunnel
    25 January, by Sylvanus

    Things are accelerating for the project to build a tunnel connecting Punta Paloma in Spain to Punta Malabata in Morocco. The Spanish public company for studies on fixed communication through the Strait of Gibraltar (SECEGSA) has entrusted a German company with carrying out the feasibility study for this underwater rail infrastructure.
    A new step towards the realization of the Morocco-Spain tunnel. The Spanish public company for studies on fixed communication through the Strait of (…)

  • Spain and Morocco Advance Plans for 38.5 km Undersea Tunnel
    26 January, by Sylvanus

    The project to build a tunnel connecting Punta Paloma, in Spain, to Punta Malabata, in Morocco, is of paramount importance for the two countries.
    The undersea tunnel to connect Spain to Morocco is 38.5 kilometers long, of which 27.7 kilometers are underwater. This underground passage should connect Punta Paloma, near Tarifa, to Tangier in Morocco. This route "will promote the development of transport networks between Spain and Morocco and create an unprecedented space of cooperation (…)

  • Morocco-Spain Underwater Tunnel Faces Decade-Long Delay
    30 January, by Prince

    The tunnel connecting Spain and Morocco under the Strait of Gibraltar will not be built by 2030 as planned. According to experts, the work on this mega-project, which is still at the study stage, can only be completed by 2040.
    Initially scheduled to be completed in 2030, in anticipation of the 2030 World Cup, the Morocco-Spain tunnel could finally only see the light of day in 2040 due to its technical complexity. Despite the efforts of the Spanish and Moroccan authorities, through the (…)