Fehmarn Belt fixed link – Page 2

  • Map of the core trans-European transport network corridors (Copyright: Railway Gazette International)
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    Future EU transport infrastructure policy to focus on TEN-T corridors

    2013-10-22T09:50:00Z

    EUROPE: The European Commission has announced details of ‘the most radical overhaul of EU infrastructure policy since its inception in the 1980s’, setting out plans to shift the focus of future transport infrastructure investment from individual projects to nine defined trans-European corridors. This focus on major corridors announced on October ...

  • The Togfonden DK infrastructure investment fund would finance railway infrastructure upgrades in Denmark (Photo Jens Hasse/Chili Foto).
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    Oil to fund electrification and reduced journey times

    2013-03-22T07:00:00Z

    DENMARK: Electrification of all main lines 'as soon as practicable' and works to reduce each leg of a København - Odense - Aarhus - Aalborg journey to 1 h are to be financed from North Sea oil revenues through a DKr27·5bn Togfonden DK infrastructure investment fund, the government announced on ...

  • Impression of a bridge
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    Fehmarn Belt tunnel preferred

    2011-01-01T05:00:00Z

    EUROPE: Femern A/S is recommending an immersed tunnel rather than a cable-stayed bridge as its preferred option for the Fehmarn Belt fixed link to replace the train ferry between Germany and Denmark, the Danish project promoter announced on November 30. A 17·6 km tunnel up to 40 m deep would ...

  • Impression of Fehmarn bridge.
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    Fehmarn Belt fixed link treaty signed

    2008-09-05T08:07:00Z

    EUROPE: The German and Danish transport ministers signed a treaty for the construction of the Fehmarn Belt fixed link between Puttgarden and Rødbyhavn on September 3. The DKr33bn fixed link is to be financed, built, operated and owned by Denmark through a state-owned company modelled on the Øresund ...