New Kaiser-Wilhelm-Tunnel

Client

DB Netz AG
DB Projekt Bau GmbH, RB Mitte, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Contractor

BeMo Tunnelling GmbH (BeMo)
sponsor in joint venture
99 % in JV “NKWT” (BeMo - FCC)

Project location

Rail line 3010, “Mosel line” Koblenz – Trier
Ediger-Eller – Cochem/Mosel, Mosel river area, Germany

Start of construction

2009

End of construction

2013

Project total value

79 million €

Geology

Mainly Quarternary Sediments, talus material (soil), clay and rock (clay-slate, siltstone, fine sandstone with quartzite banks), water pressure approx. 3 bar