FOX Brasil – Foundations Works for the Parallel Thimble Shoal Tunnel Project (PTST)

The Heavy Lift Group member, FOX Brasil, through its vast experience on project logistics was awarded with coordination to export all the necessary equipment and machinery for the foundation works of the PTST project from Brazil to the jobsite. With the largest item weighting 73.5 ton and approximately 2.000 frton, FOX provided the complete service package: stuffing, lashing and bracing several open tops and flat racks, over dimensioned haulage on special trailers, port operations, international ocean freight, customs clearance and complete survey service origin to the delivery site, from Brazil to USA. This is an on-going project and FOX Project Logistics is very proud of being an instrumental part on this international infra-structure project. The Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel is a 20-mile-long vehicular toll crossing of the lower Chesapeake Bay. This facility carries US Route 13, the main north-south highway on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, and provides the only direct link between Virginia Beach and the South Hampton Roads, Virginia. The crossing consists of a series of four lane low-level trestles and bridges, which are connected by two approximately one-mile-long two-lane tunnels beneath the Thimble Shoal and the Chesapeake navigation channels. The proposed project is the design and construction of a second two-lane parallel tunnel underneath the Thimble Shoal navigation channel next to the existing tunnel. The new tunnel with approximately 5,700 linear feet will be a Design-Build (DB) project aimed to improve the level of service and safety along the current crossing, allowing more lanes to remain open during routine maintenance and providing an alternate route in the event of an accident in the existing tunnel.