Consortia line up for Denmark’s Storstrom Bridge project
Samsung, Daewoo, Hyundai, Acciona, Ed Züblin, MT Højgaard and Per Aarsleff are among the bidders to build a bridge connecting the Danish islands of Zealand and Falstser.
The Danish Road Directorate expects to choose five pre-qualified consortia for the Storstrom Bridge project in May and the bids for the project are scheduled to be submitted by April 2016.
The new bridge, likely to cost around €565 million including the cost of demolishing the old bridge it will replace, is expected to open by 2021, a
February 12, 2015
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Samsung, 3086 Daewoo, 236 Hyundai, 976 Acciona, Ed Züblin, MT Højgaard and Per Aarsleff are among the bidders to build a bridge connecting the Danish islands of Zealand and Falstser.
The 2284 Danish Road Directorate expects to choose five pre-qualified consortia for the Storstrom Bridge project in May and the bids for the project are scheduled to be submitted by April 2016.
The new bridge, likely to cost around €565 million including the cost of demolishing the old bridge it will replace, is expected to open by 2021, according to a report in the Danish business newspaper Berlingske.
Storstrom Bridge, along with its sister bridge the Kalvø Strøm, were opened in 1985 to ease traffic on an even older Storstrøm Bridge, a 3.2km road and rail arched crossing built in 1937. The newer Storstrom Bridge and Kalvo Strom Bridge are together known as the Faro Bridges because they touch down on the small island of Faro between Zealand and Falstser islands.
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The low (north) Kalvø Strøm bridge is a 1.6km bean structure crossing Kalvø Strøm straight between Farø and Zealand islands. The longest span is 40m and the maximum clearance to the sea is 20m.
When the new Storstrom Bridge was announced in mid-November 2012, the 1035 Danish Government was keen finance the project from unused funds destined for the country’s railway network. However, a number of opposition parties wanted to finance the bridge with revenue from the planned Fehmarn Belt link between Denmark and Germany, which is only now starting to be built, as World Highways reported in January.
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The Danish government said it will create a large port area east of the small town of Rødbyhavn to facilitate construction of the future Fehmarn Belt tunnel link.
The US$7.5 billion project is an 18km tunnel including two railway tunnels, two motorway tunnels and an emergency tunnel. Construction start is scheduled for later this year and should take between six and seven years.
The tunnel is part of the major infrastructure project called the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link to connect the German island of Fe
The bypass around the Slovakian town of Ružomberok, which was supposed to be finished this summer, faces a delay of more than four years. The bypass is part of a 15.2km stretch of the D1 highway between Hubová and Ivachnová. Ružomberok, with a population of around 45,000 including its surrounding area, is in the Liptove region in northern Slovakia. It lies around 260km from the Slovakian capital Bratislava.
The European Commission said it will investigate the public financing for the Fehmarn Belt link to see if it in line with state aid rules.
The announcement follows the European Union General Court's annulment of a previous Commission decision approving the support.
"Today's opening of such an investigation is an invitation for all stakeholders to provide their input, which will allow the Commission to adopt a new, well-informed final decision,” said Margrethe Vestager, EU Competition Commissioner.
