An official groundbreaking ceremony for the planned Baltic Sea tunnel is still pending. But not only in Denmark, the construction work is already in full swing. The excavators are already rolling on the German side as well.
There has not yet been an official groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the Baltic Sea tunnel between Germany and Denmark. But not only in Denmark, but also on the Baltic Sea island of Fehmarn, construction work has been going on since spring.
“There is still a joint ceremony planned for the official start of the construction work, but a date has not yet been set,” said the press spokeswoman for the client Femern A / S, Denise Juchem, of the German press agency.
“The development work on the tunnel construction site near Puttgarden has largely been completed,” said Juchem. Since spring, water pipes, electricity and fiber optic cables have been laid and construction roads have been laid out there. “Schleswig-Holstein Netz AG is currently building two transformer stations there to supply the tunnel construction site near Puttgarden with electricity,” said Juchem.
According to Juchem, the construction of the working port at Puttgarden will begin this year. A large part of the building material should be delivered via this, she said.
On the Danish side, according to Femern A / S, construction is already underway on the larger working harbor at Rödbyhavn on Lolland and on the dikes of the future coastline and the tunnel entrance on the Danish side. While building rights for the infrastructure project have only existed in Germany since November 2020, in Denmark the parliament granted the building permit as early as 2015.
The approximately 18-kilometer-long road and rail tunnel is expected to connect the Baltic island of Fehmarn with the Danish island of Lolland as a fixed Fehmarnbelt link from 2029. Denmark alone has to pay for the construction costs of an estimated 7.1 billion euros. Germany has to bear the costs for the road and rail connection on the German side, which is estimated at 3.5 billion euros.
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