Record sub-sea tunnel construction delay

The Rogfast Tunnel will run to a depth of 350m below the Boknafjord and Kvitsøfjord on the North Sea coast of western Norway and will shorten the journey between Bergen and Stavanger by an hour.

Construction of Norway’s planned 25 km Rogfast Tunnel, which will be the longest submerged tunnel in the world and also the deepest, is now not expected to get under way until the end of 2014.

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