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title: "The Świnoujście tunnel has been inaugurated!"
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# The Świnoujście tunnel has been inaugurated!

![The Świnoujście tunnel has been inaugurated!](https://www.systra.com/italy/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2023/07/2380x1500px_featured-image-2.jpg)

The road tunnel runs for almost 2 kilometres under the Świna river, a channel in
northwest Poland that connects Szczecin Lagoon with the Baltic Sea. It creates a
road link between the Polish city of Świnoujście, located on the island of Uznam
divided between Germany and Poland, and the Polish mainland, previously linked
only by ferry.

The tunnel was excavated with a 13.46m diameter slurry TBM over a length of
approximately 1.5km, including two ramps built using the open trench and
cut-and-cover method on Uznam Island and Wolin Island, as well as emergency
niches built underwater using the ground freezing technique. It is one of the
largest diameters TBM tunnels in Europe where SFRC only segmental lining has
been used.

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