News from the tunnel that will connect Spain to Morocco. The ministry rented seismographs to examine the feasibility of the project. For six months, the seabed and the geology of the strait will be analyzed. This is one more step in a project that has been on paper for 30 years. This Thursday we asked Minister Óscar Puente about the works and he responded the following: “It is a problem that has been going on for many years and measures are underway, especially in terms of soil studies, etc. .”
It was sold as the big project for 2025. A huge underwater tunnel going from Punta Paloma, in Tarifa, to Cabo Malata, in Tangier. An idea very similar to the Eurotunnel which connects France and the United Kingdom. Two galleries almost eight meters in diameter for high-speed trains and freight trains. Yes indeed, The Spanish project would be 10 kilometers shorter, almost 40 and would operate at a maximum depth of 475 meters, almost double that of the Eurotunnel.
But underground, 16 years ago, a team from LaSexta documented the problems encountered by technicians. On both sides of the strait, the central area was clayey, making the terrain unstable. And a stone of great hardness, depending on the region, which barely This would allow the excavation to advance by one to two meters per day.
This major project, agreed between the two governments in 1996, has experienced several shutdowns in recent years. Even though the fourth cycle of studies began in 2022 and continues today with the hiring of some seismographs which will help analyze the terrain. A more modern technology than that of then who knows if it will allow this great project of almost 30 years ago to become reality.
