Convened as a virtual gathering for 2020, the representatives of the 78 Member Nations of the General Assembly of the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA) took vtal decisions on behalf of the membership.

Most decisive of these was a vote to cancel the WTC of 2021 in Copenhagen – physical or virtual – and to move it. In his presentation to the Assembly Søren Degn Eskesen, as Chairman of the organising committee for Denmark, explained that the uncertainty and travel restrictions due to the global pandemic situation was likely to have a risk impact that required an early decision for cancellation rather than advancing further into a physical event commitment that might have to be cancelled at a later stage.