Line 3 of the Panama Metro has a progress of 42%.

The Line 3 of the Panama Metro it records a progress of 42 percent, as they announced during the tour of the works.

This project consists of 25 kilometers from albrook stationwhere it will be integrated into the Line 1 station, it will continue underground for 6 kilometers to the Panama Pacifico station, where the elevated section will start and finish its journey at the station The city of the future.

It was announced that more than 26 fronts of works are currently being developed, with priority in the area from Patios y Talleres in Ciudad del Futuro to the Vista Alegre station, where the first monorail circulation tests will be carried out.

In addition, it is detailed that the station that represents the most progress in the construction of the Ciudad del Futuro, where construction work is carried out, such as the walls and finishing of the technical rooms and lobby levels; Recording beams have already been erected at the level of the platform and V columns that will support the roof structure that is being assembled.

Also, progress is being made with the construction of stairwell and elevator foundations, as well as fire protection coverings of metal structures.

Stations on line 3 will have platform doors (glass partitions that will be placed on the edges of the platforms to separate them from the tracks).

Other stations that register construction progress are: San Bernardino, with Arraijan and Loma Cova.

To date, 478 recording supports have been installed on the viaduct on poles with a maximum height of 31.6 meters, in sectors such as: San Bernardino, Vista Alegre, Burunga and Loma Cová.

Meanwhile, the yards and workshops – the maintenance area and where the trains will be assembled once they arrive in Panama – saw progress of 53%. At this moment, the last phase of the installation of the taxiway supports has begun, as well as the installation of eight of the nine switches, and the construction of administrative buildings, workshops and a substation continues.

The underground section is 6 kilometers long, of which 4.5 kilometers are tunnels.

While in Industrial complex Farfanwhere the impact shaft is located, the excavation of the diaphragm is in progress, the area where the tunnel boring machine will be mounted and the construction phase of the tunnel begins.

This attack shaft will have an approximate depth of 23 meters and a length of 115 meters; Its implementation will take place in stages.

Meanwhile, the tunnel boring machine, manufactured in Germany by the company Herrenknecht AGwill arrive at the port of Manzanillo in mid-September, where it will be transferred to Farfán, with a diameter of 13.51 meters and a length of 93 meters.

Tunneling work will begin in the second quarter of 2024 and will last approximately 22 months.