T he Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur boasts numerous spectacular buildings Not all of them enjoy the same level of popularity though Whereas the Petronas Twin Towers are known all over the world there is one impressive structure that is more of a silent star the Stormwater Man agement and Road Tunnel known as SMART for short And it s smart not just by name but by nature as well Almost ten kilometres in length it is used not just to improve the flow of traffic but also to allow high water to drain away during the monsoon season This pio neering multi purpose tunnel was built from 2004 to 2007 as a joint venture involving MMC and Gamuda A German company pro vided active support as well Frankfurt based Wayss Freytag a company that specialises in tunnel construction Experts with this kind of tunnel vision will be coming together for their annual con gress at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Cen tre in three years time The International Tunneling and Underground Space Associa tion ITA recently announced that its World Tunnel Congress WTC in 2020 would be taking place in Malaysia The decision was made at the ITA s general assembly during this year s congress in Bergen Norway Over 1 200 delegates will be travelling to Malaysia many of them engineers This prestigious congress which has an accompanying exhi bition is a very lucrative event It is expected to contribute 17 million ringgit 3 4 million euros to the country s coffers Malaysia is thus continuing on the same successful path and attracting high profile events says a de lighted Datuk Zulkefli Hj Sharif the CEO of the Malaysia Convention Exhibition Bu reau MyCEB which was established in 2009 With the help of its partners MyCEB has attracted 807 international MICE busi ness events in the last seven years he adds These have generated over a billion euros of revenues High calibre events such as the World Tunnel Congress fit in nicely with the coun try s ambitious plans www myceb com my Germany Trade Invest GTAI Ger many s foreign trade and inward investment agency reports that Malaysia is planning to become a high income economy by 2020 Emphasis was again placed on this in the five year plan submitted in May 2015 and according to which the high proportion of GDP accounted for by services will be fur ther increased The focus of manufacturing which accounts for almost a quarter of GDP will increasingly be shifting to high value products In addition greater levels of au tomation are to be introduced This is in re sponse to a labour market has been stripped almost bare and a shortage of skilled man power according to the GTAI www gtai de Malaysia s development has been dynamic in recent years and this growth trend is set to continue GDP is forecast to increase by 4 to 5 percent in 2017 PB INTERNATIONAL MALAYSIA Experts with tunnel vision The country in the South China Sea intends to be known as a high tech high income economy in the coming years Hosting prestigious MICE events fits in well with that 2020 soll es in Kuala Lumpur eine ähnliche Resonanz geben wie dieses Jahr in Norwegen The 2020 event in Kuala Lumpur is to be just as successful as this year s edition in Norway Ph ot o IT A W TC 2 01 7

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