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The longest underwater tunnel in the world will be opened in Europe: it will connect Germany and Denmark

The longest underwater tunnel in the world will connect Germany and Denmark. Its construction is already underway. Read more about this publication Travel and Leisure.

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Scheduled to open to the public in 2029, the Fehmarnbelt tunnel will pierce 11,1 miles (17,8 km) of the Baltic Sea between Denmark and Germany.

It will connect the German island of Fehmarn and the Danish island of Lolland through the Fehmarn belt and will become the longest road and rail tunnel in the world.

“Today, a train journey from Copenhagen to Hamburg takes about four and a half hours,” says Jens Ole Kaslund, technical director of Femern A/S, the state-owned Danish company in charge of the project. “When the tunnel is completed, this route will last two and a half hours.”

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For those traveling between the two cities by car, the trip will be about an hour shorter. The ferry crossing across the strait now takes about 45 minutes. When the tunnel is completed, it will take approximately 7 minutes by train and 10 minutes by car.

Funding for the Fehmarnbelt underground facility will come from a post-opening fee.

The tunnel will require about 3000 people to build, run more than 40 meters deep under the Baltic Sea, and require the equivalent of about 50 Eiffel towers in steel.

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Construction has begun on a new harbor at Lolland, and the tunnel will not be built until 2023 at the earliest.

The budget for the construction of such a tunnel is about $ 8,2 billion, which is significantly less than the cost of laying a tunnel under the English Channel connecting England and France. When the English Channel opened in 1993, its 30 miles (48 km) cost about $15,5 billion to build.

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