This contract, valued at €800 million and signed on July 19, 2007, calls for the construction of a plant, a pier methane carrier for the unloading of Liquid Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) carriersjetty, and three storage tanks. Delivery of the terminal is set for September 2011.
As part of this contract, VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Entrepose Contracting will design and build the three liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage tanks, each with a capacity of 180,000 m3.
VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Entrepose Contracting both possess recognized complementary expertise in the construction of LNG storage tanks and have completed, together or separately or in partnership or in partnership, over more than 30 storage tanks in 9 countries overin the past 20 years. This business successsuccessful track record illustrates the potential for synergies powerful synergy that exists between VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Entrepose Contracting, (77.24% of whose capital is held by VINCI).i In which VINCI now hlolds 77.24% of the capital.
The project calls for the widening of this extremely busy motorway without interruption of service from 2 x 3 lanes to 2 x 4 lanes over a distance of 23-kilometres stretch. The contractIt also includes moving the drainage system, road signs, the and lighting and central reservation, systems as well as modifying changes the to the median and to 19 motorway overpasses and underpasses.
The work will be carried out without use of a counter-flow traffic system – a first for Great Britain. Another innovation is the implementation of Compact Motorway Design (CMD), wherein lanes 3 and 4 will be narrower than lanes 1 and 2, which helps better protect the environment and cut costs related to excavation earthworks and road-surfacing. In addition, Eurovia Béton’s machinery for relocating metal marker posts will be used in Great Britain for the first time.
The Total value of the contract is €450 million. Works haves just started and will be completed in the course of 2010.
In attendance for the ceremony were Florence Dobelle, economic consultant at the Embassy of France in Romania, and representatives from VINCI Construction Grands Projets and from Carrefour.
The 30,000-m² shopping centre includes a Carrefour superstore, two department stores, 84 boutiques, theme restaurants, and 1,000 free parking spots.
The project required a global investment of €40 million and will lead to the creation of 1,200 direct jobs.
This mandate, valued at close to $60 million (€45 million), includes building a 600-metre curved ramp, which will be the longest on the island. Begun in March 2007, construction will require a total of 20 months, during which time traffic will not be interrupted.
Duplex A86, an innovative tunnel consisting of two superimposed traffic decks reserved for light vehicles, will link Rueil-Malmaison to Versailles, thus completing the “super ring road” around Paris. The tunnel will allow drivers to complete the trip in under less than 10 minutes, instead of the 45 minutes currently needed.
The launch of the first segment of the tunnel, between Rueil-Malmaison and highway A13, is set for spring 2008; work on the second segment of the tunnel should be completed in 2010.
The project, which is to be performed on behalf of the State-owned Ukrainian company ChNPP, is financed by an international fund administered by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
The €432 million contract comprises the design and construction of a confinement shelter in the form of an arch of exceptional dimensions, designed to permit the future dismantling of the old sarcophagus and the wreckage of the reactor that exploded on 26 April 1986. The arch will consist of an 18,000-ton metal framework spanning the existing sarcophagus. It will be 105 metres high, 150 metres long, with a 257-metre span. A special ventilation system will be put in place to prevent the spread of radioactive particles into the environment. The arch will be assembled to the west of the site, in a specially developed zone some distance from the damaged reactor. It will then be slid into place over the existing sarcophagus.
The project will employ 900 people at its peak. All personnel present on the site will be specially equipped to ensure their safety and protection against radiation (including radiation-proof suits and breathing masks), and they will be subject to regular medical and radiation checks. In addition the site will be monitored permanently for radioactivity and atmospheric contamination.
Work will start at the end of 2007 and will last 53 months, including 18 months of planning and design studies.
This contract win, thanks to the know-how of VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Bouygues Travaux Publics in the field of nuclear civil engineering and the management of major international projects, is the culmination of important contract negotiations beginning with the international competition for ideas launched by Ukraine, which VINCI won in 1993.
The projects calls for the financing, design, construction and/or repair of 365 km of toll motorway between Athens and Tsakona, in the south-west of the Peloponnese, via Corinth and Patras. It also includes operating the motorway for 30 years.
The concession consortium comprises VINCI (leader with 36%), Hochtief of Germany and three Greek companies, Aktor (a subsidiary of Elliniki Technodomiki), J&P-Avax and Athena.
The works, valued at approximately €2.1 billion, will last six years. They will be carried out by a construction consortium in which VINCI Construction Grands Projets holds the biggest share (36%). The company will be in charge of the operational management of the project.
The project strengthens VINCI’s position in Greece, where the Group already operates the Rion-Antirion bridge under a concession contract. In addition, as part of a consortium comprising VINCI Concessions (13.75%), Hochtief (leader) and several large Greek companies (including Elliniki Technodomiki and J&P-Avax), it recently won the 30-year concession contract for the Maliakos-Kleidi motorway, which covers 230 km on the northern part of the Athens-Thessalonica corridor.
Success on this project illustrates once again the aptness of the Group’s integrated concession and construction business model. The new contract is both the biggest construction worksite and the biggest concession ever won by VINCI outside France. It gives the Group a firm foothold in Greece, which still has major infrastructure needs and where the PPP culture is now well established, as well as a bridgehead into the Balkans.
Upgrading Raising the dam, which belongs to Snowy Hydro Ltd., required the installation of 7.6-metre-high fusegates, a technology patented by Hydroplus.
This is the fourth contract signed with the NWC. Work will be completed in August 2008.
The contract, worth approximately €250 million, covers the construction of phase 1, which involves 5 kilometres of tunnels and five underground stations. When complete, the third line of Cairo’s metro will be 33 kilometres long and have 29 stations. It will link the airport, located 22 kilometres to the north-east of the city, to Giza’s Mohandessin district.
Phase 1 of this line is scheduled for opening in 2011 after 48 months of construction work. It will increase the network to a total of 100 kilometres and should contribute to relieving traffic congestion in the city. By 2020, the Cairo metro will carry 5 million passengers a day.
This new contract reflects the confidence that Egypt’s Ministry of Transport has shown in VINCI for almost 20 years.
The first line of the Cairo metro was built by VINCI in the early 1980s and now carries over 1.4 million passengers a day. The second line, also built by VINCI, was opened in the mid-1990s. Covering 22 km between Shubra El Kheima and Giza, it has 20 stations, of which 12 are under ground.
This successful outcome illustrates VINCI’s ability to execute turnkey metro projects. In addition to lines 1 and 2 of Cairo’s metro, the company’s recent prestigious contracts in this field include the metros in Budapest, Algiers, Athens, Hong Kong, Rennes and Paris (line 14).
