Rail company Deutsche Bahn awards contract to VINCI Construction Terrassement for the high-speed rail line connecting Stuttgart, the capital of Baden-Württemberg, to Ulm, in Germany.
The €55 million contract involves building a section of the railway between Stuttgart Airport and the city of Wendlingen. Works include 5.4 km of earthworks and drainage, 7.5 km of siding and 8,500 square meters of noise barriers. The section will take two years to build and employ 100 people.
The contract comes under one of the biggest work sites currently under way in Germany, Stuttgart 21. This railway and urban development project is designed to reduce traffic congestion and upgrade the railway junction in Stuttgart (access and lines), by turning the city’s existing infrastructure into an underground pass-through train station.
The project’s broader, long-term implications include it as part of the Magistrale for Europe plans to build a high-speed rail link between Paris and Budapest.
Germany is the VINCI Group’s largest market outside France, with revenue of about €2,7 billion in 2017 and more than 14,000 employees working for the local VINCI Concessions, VINCI Energies and Eurovia subsidiaries.