Imagine the embarrassment for Wirth and Herrenknecht, two German companies that had supplied Ghorb and one of its subsidiaries with the tunnel boring machinery necessary to construct the facility.

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These workers carry out specialised tasks on our tunnel-boring operation and travel around the world as employees of the Italian company that is doing the work.

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In spite of round-the-clock work, progress on boring a huge tunnel into the earth was not up to mark.

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