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Fifty percent of Doha Metro tunneling complete: official
DOHA: About 50 percent of the 113-kilometer long tunneling works for Doha Metro has been completed with the help of 21 tunnel boring machines (TBM) that are advancing underground at full swing, said a senior official of Qatar Rail on Tuesday.
Abdulla Abdulaziz Al Subaie, Qatar Rail Managing Director, said the Doha Metro project is advancing according to schedule with QR60bn worth of contracts awarded to nine joint ventures.
Al Subaie made the remarks as he gave a speech before the fourth annual Qatar Transport Forum, which he said comes at time where Qatar is at the center of construction activities related to the global transportation sector, with $44bn in transport projects currently under construction and $35bn in projects due to be awarded over the next three years.
