Tunnel

Shortly after midnight on Wednesday, the first OSE freight train from Thessaloniki to Athens passed through, following a suspension on Monday due to severe weather conditions caused by Storm Bora, which created significant problems in a tunnel at Tempi.

The TBM shaft at Veikou for the new Line 4 of the Athens Metro was visited today by the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Christos Staikouras, along with the Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport

Three workers who were trapped inside a collapsed railway tunnel have been found dead, despite rescue efforts that lasted over five days, Thai authorities announced.

According to the BBC, the men, two from China and one from Myanmar, were believed to be still alive until Thursday, August 29.

A 64-year-old Dutch tourist who had been missing on the eastern Aegean island of Samos was found dead on Wednesday.

The woman, identified only as Brigitte, had disappeared on August 22 after hiking near the Tunnel of Eupalinos, a popular tourist attraction near the island's southeastern coast. Her body was discovered by a Belgian tourist in the area, who then alerted the authorities.

A search operation to locate a missing 64-year-old Dutch tourist on Samos has entered its third day.

The woman disappeared on Thursday morning on a hike. She had told a friend that she wanted to walk around the Eupalinos tunnel, from the outside, starting and ending at the town of Pythagoreio, where she was staying at a hotel.

A British tourist who disappeared on Wednesday from a beach in Rhodes was found dead on Thursday afternoon.

The lifeless body of the 48-year-old was found on Paradisi beach by a local resident.

An autopsy is expected to shed more light on the circumstances of his death.

A 1,213-meter long pipeline is being constructed using a tunnel boring machine, along with eight underground tanks (5 meters in width and 12 meters in depth) as part of efforts to prevent flooding in the suburb of Nea Filadelfia in western Athens.

On December 19, 1992, robbers drilled holes in the basement wall of what was then an Ergasias Bank branch in central Athens - even though it was reinforced with steel - opened hundreds of safes and removed valuables, cash and bonds worth billions of drachmas, or millions of euros today. 

Infrastructure and Transport Minister Christos Staikouras and his deputy, Nikos Tachiaos, visited the Katechaki and Veikou tunnel boring sites on the under-construction Line 4 of the Athens Metro on Monday and confirmed that the first section of the extension is expected to be completed by 2030.

Today marks a significant advancement in transportation infrastructure in Bulgaria as traffic is officially permitted through the "Zheleznitsa" tunnel on the "Struma" highway. This engineering marvel, spanning approximately 2 kilometers, proudly stands as the longest road tunnel ever constructed within the nation's borders.