PPG Ukraine, Alfa Logistics, has successfully completed the shipment of a tunnel boring machine (TBM) FROM Le Creusot, France, headquarters of NFM Technologies, to Kazan in the Russian republic of Tatarstan. Ms. Julia Rusanova advises the cargo landed at Rostov from where it will be onshipped to Kazan, where it will be used for tunnelling the extension to the Kazan subway.

The 5.89m diameter Earth Pressure Balance (EPB) TBM was designed for the subway line 1 extension in Kazan, following on from the initial order in 2005 for the subway.

“The first machine was chosen quite by chance,” said Marat Rakhimov, director of Kazmetrostroy, the authority in charge of the construction of the subway. “This machine was chosen from experience.”

Alfa Logistics transported the machine, which has been given a Tatar girl’s name meaning “as beautiful as the moon” from Le Creusor at the beginning of August on it’s journey to the work site, where it arrived in good order and condition at the end of September.