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The track laying can be partially automated by using slab tracks. Rhomberg has developed a system that can be operated by just two men

The track laying can be partially automated by using slab tracks. Rhomberg has developed a system that can be operated by just two men. PR photo: Rhomberg

Trains will run on “slab tracks” through the Fehmarn Tunnel

The railway tracks through the Fehmarn Tunnel will not be installed on sleepers resting on a ballast layer of gravel or stone. Instead, they must be mounted directly on concrete slabs at the bottom of the tunnel tubes. The technique has great potential.

Finland's ambassador to Denmark, Harri Kämärienen (right), visited the Fehmarn project in Rødbyhavn on Monday. He was more than usual impressed and has had something to talk about at home in Finland.

Finland's ambassador to Denmark, Harri Kämärienen (right), visited the Fehmarn project in Rødbyhavn on Monday. He was more than just impressed and has had something to talk about at home in Finland. Photo: Femern A/S.

Finland has an eye for the element factory

In Finland, a fixed connection between Vaasa and Umeå and one between Helsinki and Tallinn is being debated. On Monday, Finland’s ambassador to Denmark visited the tunnel construction site in Rødbyhavn, and he got something to write home about.

It can be hard to get it all in a selfie when it comes to bridge construction. The chairman of the Danish Parliament's transport committee, Rasmus Prehn from the Social Democratic Party, nevertheless made the attempt when the committee visited the construction sites on both the new Storstrømsbro and the Fehmarn Tunnel.

It can be hard to get it all in a selfie when it comes to bridge construction. The chairman of the Danish Parliament's transport committee, Rasmus Prehn from the Social Democratic Party, nevertheless made the attempt when the committee visited the construction sites on both the new Storstrømsbro and the Fehmarn Tunnel. Photo: Bernt Hertz Jensen

The Transport Committee on bridge and tunnel inspection

The Danish Parliament’s transport committee visited two construction sites on Monday. The “problem child”, the new Storstrømsbro, reports, despite financial mess, reasonable progress. The Fehmarn building site coped with a triple cloudburst in fine style.

Casting work on the first tunnel segment is already in full swing. Femern A/S does not want to answer what it will mean if the project has to be postponed at this advanced stage.

Casting work on the first tunnel segment is already in full swing. Femern A/S does not want to answer what it will mean if the project has to be postponed at this advanced stage. Photo: Femern A/S

Femern A/S: Scandlines is concerned about competition

The state-owned construction company behind the Fehmarn connection has little to say to the criticism of the project’s CO2 account, which is raised in a KRAKA report commissioned by Scandlines. However, Femern A/S refuses to deal specifically with the criticism.

Sund & Bælt is now ready with the environmental assessment of a possible permanent establishment of FLC's element factory in Rødbyhavn, which will form the basis for the political decision on the factory's future.

Sund & Bælt is now ready with the environmental assessment of a possible permanent establishment of FLC's element factory in Rødbyhavn, which will form the basis for the political decision on the factory's future. Photo: Femern A/S.

Environmental assessment of permanent element factory ready

Sund & Bælt has published the so-called environmental impact assessment of a permanentization of the element factory in Rødbyhavn. The overall conclusions bode well for conservation after 2029.