Why UK And Morocco Plan To Build A $9.4 BN Undersea Tunnel To Link Africa To Europe

In this video, we’ll present why UK and Morocco plan to build a $9.4 billion undersea tunnel to link Africa to Europe. Britain and Morocco are considering plans to revive a decades-old project for a tunnel connecting Europe to Africa by linking the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar to the northern Moroccan city of Tangier. This comes Years after the failure of a planned Spanish-Moroccan tunnel project, which aimed at establishing a physical connection between the two continents is back on the radar. The UK has seriously embarked on studying the project that will link Europe to Africa, according to a report by the Arab Weekly. Talk about the first tunnel linking Europe and Africa, mooted since the late 1800s. First put forward in 1869, a planned 38 km-long tunnel crossing would link Spain and Morocco through the Strait of Gibraltar from Tarifa to Tangier and was estimated to cost $9.4 billion. This project could not materialize, due to unsuitable tunneling terrain and funding problems