The Norwegian government is working on a naval tunnel project with respectable numbers:
- 3 billion cubic meters of rock to be removed;
Almost 2 kilometers long: 37 meters high, 26 meters wide;
A capacity of about 100 ships per day;
Cost of 1.7 billion crowns (approximately 186 million euros).
Il naval tunnel (whose construction will start next year) will be "alternating one-way": only one "lane", therefore, to make ends meet and avoid any risk of accident as much as possible.
And the economic return?
The Norwegian naval tunnel will provide a enormous boost to both the fishing industry and fast ferry transport (another intelligent choice was to not make it navigable by cruise ships: a circumstance that would have represented more than one unknown).
The Snøhetta architecture studio, which developed all the plans for this work, analyzed dozens of possible points and identified the most suitable one to allow navigation to bypass an entire peninsula, that of Stad, safely and quickly.
The peninsula of Stad has always been a fundamental hub of navigation, but it is plagued by a climate that often generates high waves and even small hurricanes. The naval tunnel will greatly reduce navigation time, but above all it will eliminate the many risks currently associated with traveling that stretch.
The site of the Norwegian coastal authorities with the preliminary studies of the project
