Next year, the first modern tunnel-boring machines ever used in New Jersey will arrive in North Bergen to begin drilling the first mile of the $16 billion Gateway Tunnel through the rocky Palisades.

The two massive tunnel boring machines that will do the first drilling for the Gateway Rail Tunnel between New York and New Jersey are now in North Bergen, laid out in components across a construction ...

Traditional rectangular tunnel boring machines have low tunneling efficiency, poor soil mixing effects, which has hindered the construction of long-distance and large-section box jacking projects. To ...

A little more than a month after construction of the Hudson River Tunnel resumed, crews are working assembling the specialized machines necessary to dig the first stage of a pair of rail tunnels ...