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120,000 cubic meters of shards will be reused as ballast on a 30 kilometer stretch of track across Lolland.

The Ringsted-Fehmarn railway will be built on recycled shards

The 30 kilometers of new double tracks across Lolland on the Ringsted-Fehmarn line will lie on a layer of ballast shards that have been used before. This can be felt both on the price and on the CO2 account.

This autumn, the construction of a new railway bridge over Guldborgsund will begin.

The “missing link” of the Fehmarn connection almost ready to start

The only rail connection between Falster and Lolland is the 60-year-old Frederik IX bridge over Guldborgsund. This autumn, MT Højgaard will tackle the construction of a new railway bridge for just over half a billion kroner.

It could end up with a bill of up to 80 billion Euros (596 billion kroner) to upgrade 9,000 kilometers of German railways. But the money is the least challenge for Deutsche Bahn.

Analysis: Many unknowns in Deutsche Bahn’s billion-euro equation

9,000 kilometers of German railway must be upgraded in seven years. It will be expensive, but the money is the least of the problems. Employees, materials and machines, on the other hand, become a challenge. Bureaucracy and law risk derailing the project.

Deutsche Bahn will spend over EUR 45 billion on upgrading the railway network over the next seven years.

Germany will invest EUR 45 billion in the railway network

Deutsche Bahn will upgrade the dilapidated German railway network with 9,000 kilometers of high-capacity lines. Hamburg-Berlin stands first. In 2027, the section from Lübeck to Hamburg must be fully renovated.

It took between 50 and 52 hours to cast the first of a total of 711 tunnel segments back in July. When everything goes according to plan, a production team of 100-150 people must be able to complete the job in 27 hours. Photo: Femern A/S

Two segments down – 709 to go

Casting work at the tunnel factory in Rødbyhavn is in full swing. The first two segments have been cast, and on Monday they start with number three of a total of 711. But all beginnings are difficult, and the first two did not go quickly or without problems.

The Minister of Transport follows Femernsund work closely

The Danish Ministry of Transport is in ongoing dialogue with Germany about a new Fehmarnsund tunnel. According to the ministry’s information, work is to begin this year.

OP-ED: When networks become important for companies’ success

I am often asked the question: Is it “work” to network? YES, although I also have piles of other work tasks. FB Suppliers in Rødbyhavn has been the perfect starting point for national and international networking, writes Merete Jensen from Global Tunneling Experts in this opinion editorial.

“The world’s best Dutch” have delivered a huge hole

It is quite something to deliver an 18 kilometer long and 40-meter-deep hole in the ground within a precision margin corresponding to an A4 sheet. The FBC consortium has performed this to the full satisfaction of the client, Femern A/S. Only the last details are now remaining before the tunnel trench is finished.

Moment of truth for floating concrete giant

FLC is filling the basins in front of the element factory in Rødbyhavn with water. It provides an opportunity to get to know the huge floating concrete gate that will be used as a sluice gate to the outer basins.

Here is Deutsche Bahn’s plan for the hinterland connection

Deutsche Bahn has presented to Lübecker Nachrichten the plan to complete the 88 kilometers between Puttgarden and Lübeck by 2029. The plan is received with satisfaction by Fehmarn Belt Development. But it is not particularly realistic.

The tunnel town, FLC village, houses around 1,500, mainly Polish, tunnel workers. According to a university thesis, it is a non-place that reduces people to workers.

The tunnel city is a non-place

The roughly 1,500, mainly Polish, tunnel workers housed in FLC Village live behind fences in a camera-surveillance area. They cannot have outside visitors, they cannot furnish themselves, and they get a new home every time they have been home. The village is a non-place, according to a new thesis from Roskilde University.