Porr Wins Major Order in Germany

IndustrialsConstruction ♦ Published: August 2, 2011; 14:04 ♦ (Vindobona)

The Austrian construction company will build two tunnels as part of the Stuttgart 21 project. Total volume of the order is € 700m.

Porr Wins Major Order in Germany / Picture: © Porr AG

A consortium of four Austrian companies headed by Porr was awarded with a key part of the Stuttgart21 railway project by Deutsche Bahn (DB). The Viennese construction company announced that it would build a 9.5 km tunnel connecting Stuttgart Airport with the city’s new main station. Construction work on the € 700m order is scheduled to start in August 2011 and to be finished in…