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Doha Metro Project: 111 km of new Metro Tunnels built in 26 Months

Map of Doha Metro Phase 1, which is scheduled to be completed by 2020 Quelle/credit: Qatar Rail
Map of Doha Metro Phase 1, which is scheduled to be completed by 2020
Quelle/credit: Qatar Rail
On September 25, VIPs and project participants celebrated the final breakthrough together. Guests at the ceremony included (from left to right) the CEO and Chairman of Qatar Rail Abdulla Abdulaziz Turki al Subaie, the German ambassador to Qatar Hans-Udo Muzel, the Minister of Transport and Communication of Qatar,H.E. Jassim Saif Ahmed al Sulaiti and Dr.-Ing E.h. Martin Herrenknecht Quelle/credit: Herrenknecht
On September 25, VIPs and project participants celebrated the final breakthrough together. Guests at the ceremony included (from left to right) the CEO and Chairman of Qatar Rail Abdulla Abdulaziz Turki al Subaie, the German ambassador to Qatar Hans-Udo Muzel, the Minister of Transport and Communication of Qatar,H.E. Jassim Saif Ahmed al Sulaiti and Dr.-Ing E.h. Martin Herrenknecht
Quelle/credit: Herrenknecht

September 25, 2016, 10.44 am local time in Doha, Hamad International Airport: with precision the seven meter tunnel boring machine “Msheireb”  pierces the final target wall of the “Red Line South”. It is the last of 76 breakthroughs in the gigantic project Doha Metro. The TBM breaking through marks the finale of one of the most ambitious tunnel structures in the world. Cleverly master-planned by client Qatar Rail, it took just 26 months to provide the capital of Qatar with three city-wide metro lines with 111 km of ultra-modern tunnel systems. According to Qatar Rail the overall completion of...

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