OREANDA-NEWS. On 06 August 2009 was announced, that at the end of July 2009, on the job sites of the Tunnel Systems #1 and #5 located along the combined (rail and traffic) road from Adler to “Alpika – Servis”, construction of the launching chambers was completed and excavation of the service tunnels started using TBMs. The service tunnel #1 (2420 meters long) is being constructed by means of the Lovat RME 232SE TBM, which was already successfully applied for construction of metro in the city of Novosibirsk. The service tunnel #5 is being constructed by means of the new Lovat RME 167SE TBM. Its length is 2800 meters. Construction of these service tunnels is performed by “Tunnel Division 18” Ltd.