New section added to Georgia’s longest tunnel with “90% of work completed” - Infrastructure Ministry

A new 1.5-km-long section has been added to the Kvesheti-Kobi tunnel - a 9-km-long and 15-metre-wide tunnel, the largest in Georgia. Photo: Ministry of Infrastructure

Agenda.ge, 01 Dec 2023 - 12:28, Tbilisi,Georgia

A new 1.5-km-long section has been added to the Kvesheti-Kobi tunnel - a 9-km-long and 15-metre-wide tunnel, the largest in Georgia - as part of works on the North-South Road Corridor, the Ministry of Infrastructure said on Friday.

The Ministry said the addition meant over 8 km of the tunnel had already been dug in the first section of the project, in addition to a third tunnel, with works on others “actively underway”.

At this stage, about 90 percent of the work is completed. The new 9-km-long tunnel will be the longest in Georgia and one of the most unique in the world”, the body added, noting the new section had been cut using hardware specially built for the purpose of the infrastructure.

Georgian Finance Minister Lasha Khutsishvili visited the construction site together with Masatsugu Asakawa, the President of the Asian Development Bank.