The Swedish Transport Authority has awarded Implenia the €40m ($43.4m) contract for the development of the Ersmark Tunnel on the brand new North Bothnia railway line in Northern Sweden.
The contract covers the planning and building of the 1.6km tunnel between Fäboberget and Ersmarksberget, in addition to a service tunnel, concrete buildings, wastewater administration programs, and drainage mats.
Jiri Tomasek Englen, Implenia Sweden’s head of tunnelling, mentioned: “We’re very proud to have been chosen to hold out the undertaking in Ersmarksberget. Because of this Implenia Sweden is returning to the north, and this time we’re right here to remain completely.
“We additionally stay up for nearly as good cooperation as we’ve in our different tasks with the Swedish Transport Administration.”
Work on the undertaking will start in Might 2023 and is predicted to final two years as a part of the second part of the 270km North Bothnia line, which is able to run between Umeå and Luleå.
The brand new rail and freight line is predicted to have the travelling time between the 2 cities when full and types a part of the longer Bothnian Hall connecting Sweden and Finland with the broader EU rail community.
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Implenia has a effectively established presence within the rail building sector, and particularly with rail tunnels, having labored on different main tasks round Europe together with the Brenner Base Tunnel extension in Italy and a $360m twin-track rail enlargement between Varberg and Hamra in Sweden which started in 2019.
