Press release
Cegelec will equip two major tunnels
in Germany and Algeria for 85 million euros
Paris, 27 January 2009
Cegelec, an international group providing technological services to companies and public authorities, has recently been entrusted with the electrotechnical infrastructure of two major motorway tunnels in Germany (Hamburg) and Algeria (East-West motorway in construction) for a global amount of 85 million euros.
These two new contracts confirm the Group’s expertise in providing electrical infrastructures, and most particularly safety equipment, for major road and rail tunnel projects. Since its creation in 2001, Cegelec has recorded orders close to 300 million euros in this field.
For the Elb tunnel in Hamburg, one of the longest underwater tunnels in the world (3.3 km) used by up to 150,000 vehicles daily, Cegelec will renovate all of the electrotechnical infrastructure for three tubes, including ventilation and safety equipment and the traffic management system. Inaugurated in 1975, the Elb tunnel comprises four tubes, with the more recently added fourth tube already fitted out by Cegelec.
In Algeria, Cegelec will equip four tunnels, representing a total length of 4.7 km, to be built for the future, 1,216 km long, motorway that will link Tlemcen to Annaba and represents the country’s largest infrastructure project to date. The Group has been selected thanks to the presence of a local subsidiary which has expanded its areas of activity in recent months and because of its international competence centre in Lyon (France) specialising in tunnel safety equipment.
Cegelec has worked on numerous road and rail tunnel projects. Its references include the Mont Blanc and Maurice Lemaire tunnels in France, the last one being recently reopened to traffic, the Lötschberg tunnel in Switzerland, Dresden's tunnels in Germany, the Bregenz tunnel in Austria, the Cointe tunnel in Belgium and Rotterdam's Vliet tunnel in the Netherlands.
