FCC signs a contract for a motorway concession in Slovakia
The section at issue is 25 kilometres long
The Slovak government and a consortium made up of FCC Construcción, Alpine Bau GmbH, Hochtief PPP Solutions GmbH and Western Carpathian Motorway Investors Company signed the concession agreement for a section of Motorway D1 on 22 January 2010.
Motorway D1 is the main Slovak transport corridor across the country, and it links Slovakia to Austria and Ukraine. The 25-kilometre-long awarded section consists of several stretches of road running between the cities of Hricovské Podhradie and Dubná Skala, in northern Slovakia, and in the vicinity of the city of Zilina. Financing is anticipated to be closed in the next few months.
The contract includes the construction of the new 25-kilometre-long section, with six kilometres of junctions, 7.6 kilometres of bridges and three tunnels having a total length of 10.6 kilometres, the foremost of which is Visnove Tunnel, worth 1,990 million euro. The contract also calls for 30 year’s maintenance.
