WTC 2018

摘要

IN APRIL THE TUNNELLING industry gathered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates for the World Tunnel Congress (WTC) and 44th ITA General Assembly. The Gulf state only became an ITA Member Nation in 2011, but for its size has been an impressive force in recent demand for tunnelling. The SoE UAE itself has grown from five engineers in 1979 to 45,000 today, and the ITA claims that the Middle East's tunnelling market output is of the same order as Europe, which apart from a few areas, is relatively flat.