The Philippines will be holding the groundbreaking ceremony of the Metro Manila Subway on February 27.
In line with this, DOTr Secretary Arthur Tugade, Usec. for Railways Timothy John Batan, PNR General Manager Junn Magno, along with Japanese Ambassador to the Philippines Koji Haneda and senior officials from JICA, inspected actual tunnel boring machines at the JIMT Tsurumi Factory in Tokyo, Japan.
“JIM Technology Corporation is considered as the no. 1 Japanese manufacturer of tunnel boring machines— an equipment needed to build subway systems,” DOTr said.