Xin Xian does not hide his joy. At the end of October, the first test of the first line of the Tel Aviv light rail went off without a hitch. No balagan (shambles, in French), a Hebrew word that he has for having often heard it around the meeting table where “it was spoken during discussions on the difficulties in the works”. Chief engineer at the Chinese company CRTG (China Railway Tunnel Group), Xin Xian has worked alongside Israeli engineers for years. He is the boss of the tunnel boring machine, the enormous machine that dug the tunnels where the trains run. He hopes to stay in Israel for the construction of the other two metro lines in greater Tel Aviv. His company went to the call for tenders. Will she win? Not sure.
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