Skip to main content

Denmark: Fehmarn Tunnel contracts awarded to consortium

The Danish government has awarded €4.4 billion worth of contracts for the Fehmarn Tunnel that will link Germany and Denmark, according to Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper. An international consortium that includes German Wayss und Freytag Ingenieurbau, Max Bögl Stiftung and Netherlands-based BAM picked up the work. Contracts include the excavation and construction of underground tunnels, manufacture of internal tunnel elements and the entry and exit ramps. Work is expected to star
June 3, 2016 Read time: 1 min
The Danish government has awarded €4.4 billion worth of contracts for the Fehmarn Tunnel that will link Germany and Denmark, according to Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper.

An international consortium that includes German Wayss und Freytag Ingenieurbau, Max Bögl Stiftung and Netherlands-based BAM picked up the work.

Contracts include the excavation and construction of underground tunnels, manufacture of internal tunnel elements and the entry and exit ramps.

Work is expected to start in 2019 as the earliest, the newspaper report said, although it remains subject to approval by German authorities. Approval could come next year and the €7 billion project.

Related Content

  • Challenges mount for the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link project
    December 15, 2016
    The Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link between Danish and German islands faces ongoing delays that are pushing a construction start past this year and well into 2018. A meeting in mid-December between Danish traffic minister Ole Birk Olesen and his German counterpart Reinhard Meyer for the neighbouring German state of Schleswig-Holstein, highlighted mounting opposition against the €7 billion or more project. During the meeting, Meyer stressed that the Schleswig-Holstein government remains determined to implement
  • VIDEO: Companies pre-qualify for Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link consulting
    November 3, 2016
    4782 Femern, the company charged with building what will be the world’s longest submerged tunnel, has prequalified companies for consulting work.

    The companies will be able to tender for two framework agreements, one for client consulting services and the other for technical in-house consulting services.

    Femern is responsible for building the 18km Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link immersed tunnel between Rødbyhavn in Denmark and Puttgarden in Germany. The estimated cost has increased over the past several years to reach around €7.4 billion.
  • SBM concrete plants for Fehmarnbelt tunnel
    June 17, 2021
    The 18km Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link in the Baltic Sea will create an uninterrupted traffic link between the Danish island of Lolland and the German Island of Fehmarn.
  • Peri delivers formwork for Fehmarnbelt Tunnel
    July 12, 2023
    The last of the 12 ships delivering Peri’s formwork recently arrived at the tunnel element factory east of Rødbyhavn on Denmark’s Lolland island.