Around 1,500 tonnes of reinforcement for casting the concrete tunnel elements are produced weekly for the 17.6km Fehmarn Belt Tunnel that will connect the Danish island of Lolland with the German island of Fehmarn.
Sund & Bælt has completed an environmental assessment of the tunnel element factory for the 18km Fehmarnbelt project between Denmark’s Lolland and Germany’s Fehmarn islands.
A bridge would cross the Kattegat Strait between the Jutland peninsula city of Aarhus - Denmark’s second largest city after the capital Copenhagen - and Kalundborg, a small city of 17,000 on the western shore of Zealand Island.
The contract will comprise a 25km two-track railway to run trains at 200kph and a catenary system of which 18km will be inside the immersed road-rail Fehmarnbelt Tunnel.
The number of commuters crossing the Fehmarn Belt, a Baltic Sea strait that separates a German island and a Danish island, could reach 1.2 million by 2030, notes a new report.
