News update

Airbus, Air Liquide and VINCI Airports, three major players in the aviation, hydrogen and airport industries, are working together to promote the use of hydrogen at airports and build the European airport network to accommodate future hydrogen aircrafts.

Seymour Whyte, a VINCI Construction subsidiary based in Australia, has been selected for a design and build rail and pavement upgrade contract of the Port of Melbourne, Australia’s largest container and general cargo port, handling more than one-third of the nation’s container trade.

On 17 September 2021, VINCI Concessions successfully completed – within a record time of two months - the financing of the PPP contract for the new B247 federal road linking the cities of Mühlhausen and Bad Langensalza, in the Free State of Thuringia. The contract had been awarded in July 2021 by the DEGES, the public body in charge of developing transport infrastructure in Germany.

Traffic on VINCI Autoroutes inter-urban networks, both for light vehicles and heavy vehicles, confirmed the upward momentum. In August 2021, all vehicle categories, it rose 2.1% compared to August 2019. In August 2021, passenger traffic in the VINCI Airports network was down 56.6% compared to August 2019, confirming the recovery observed in July.

The World Congress for Nature, held from 3 to 11 September in Marseille, has been an opportunity for the Group to renew its commitment to preserve biodiversity and showcase the first results of its work.

From 30 August to 3 September, the diversity and inclusion week brought together all VINCI companies present in Brazil, i.e. 400 employees working on a daily basis.

After a two-year hiatus, the VINCI Cup was back this 28 and 29 August in Meudon – with a momentous new feature: it now includes women’s teams.

VINCI announces the publication today of its 2021 half-year financial report as well as its submission to the French financial markets’ regulator (Autorité des marchés financiers).

Sharp upturn in revenue and earnings – Return to normal in most business lines - VINCI Energies and VINCI Construction: revenue and earnings in excess of 2019 levels

Bachy Soletanche Singapore, subsidiary of VINCI Construction, in a joint-venture with Gammon Construction and Engineering, has been awarded the design-build contract for the extension of Ang Mo Kio metro station and the associated tunnels.

VINCI Energies has signed a public-private partnership with the state of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany regarding the construction and operation of a new agronomy faculty in Kiel.

In partnership with SOLIDEO, Paris 2024, the city of Saint-Denis and the Plaine Commune authority, VINCI Immobilier has launched the Universeine development project, set to be built by VINCI Construction France.

DEGES, the public body in charge of developing transport infrastructure in Germany, has awarded to VINCI Concessions the public-private partnership contract of the new federal road B247.

VINCI Airports’ network handled around 14 million passengers in Q2 2021, i.e. 79.1% less than in Q2 2019.

From 2 July to 21 August, the #BienArriver campaign will return to 26 service areas in our motorway network.

The concession holder of Faro airport, VINCI Airports, has launched the construction of a solar power plant, set to go into operation in 2022.

As part of the construction of the 57.5 km tunnel that will connect Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne (France) and Susa (Italy), the owner Tunnel Euralpin Lyon-Turin (TELT) has awarded the contract for works package 2 to a consortium led by VINCI Construction Grands Projets.

VINCI Airports (VINCI Concessions) is launching a local reforestation programme that will absorb the residual emissions of the Lyon-Saint Exupéry and Lyon-Bron airports, operated by our teams since 2016.

The Nice Le Ray complex, located on the site of the former Le Ray stadium in the heart of a 3-hectare landscaped public park, was inaugurated by VINCI Immobilier and the City of Nice on the 23rd of June.

VINCI has successfully issued a €750 million bond maturing in January 2032 and carrying an annual coupon of 0.5%.

Four of the five buildings that will make up L’Archipel, the new VINCI head office in Nanterre near Paris, were delivered on 25 June 2021.

Integrated Health Projects (IHP)*, a joint venture between VINCI Construction UK and Sir Robert McAlpine, has been awarded the full contract to build a new cancer research facility at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester, United Kingdom.

Petit, a VINCI Construction France subsidiary, handed over today the La Samaritaine renovated buildings, a well-known Parisian landmark established in 1870 by Ernest Cognacq, to the LVMH group. The works began in 2015 and up to 700 employees daily, including experts in listed heritage renovation, were involved.

VINCI Facilities UK Ltd (a VINCI Construction subsidiary based in the United Kingdom) has been awarded the contract covering hard facilities management, grounds maintenance and capital works for the Ministry of Defence’s built estate across the south-east of the United Kingdom.

In Uganda, teams from Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction) finished planting 17,500 trees in late April as part of an initiative they took on of their own volition in 2019 to offset the Katosi-Kampala transmission project.

In Côte d’Ivoire, a consortium led by Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction) with Egis, Baudin Chateauneuf and Alcor is currently delivering a new stadium in Yamoussoukro.

In partnership with JobIRL, VINCI is launching a unique platform to enable young people to access apprenticeship contracts with the Group as well as associated training courses.

The Ministry of Transportation of Alberta (Canada) has awarded Carmacks, a subsidiary of Eurovia (VINCI Construction) based in Canada, the project to widen the Highway 40 expressway in the southern part of the city of Grande Prairie (450 km north-west of Edmonton).

The city of Vienne in Isère has tasked a consortium formed of Easy Charge (a VINCI Autoroutes and VINCI Energies subsidiary specialising in electric mobility) and the Fund for the Ecological Modernisation of Transport (FMET) with the rollout and management of its public network of electric charging points.

Seymour Whyte, a VINCI Construction subsidiary based in Australia, has won a road upgrade contract for one of the main routes through south-east Melbourne’s fast-growing Dandenong South area, worth €86 million (A$134 million). The project aims at reducing traffic pressure by connecting South Gippsland Highway to Abbotts Road to improve access in and around the Dandenong South employment hub and therefore enhance productivity of the industrial precinct.

The grand finale of Challenge Innovatech©, organised by VINCI partner Elles Bougent, took place on 6 May.

On 29 April 2021, the consortium consisting of VINCI Highways, lead company, and Meridiam (50/50) completed the financing of the PPP contract for the D4 motorway linking Pøíbram (Central Bohemia) and Písek (South Bohemia). This contract won in December 2020, was signed with the Czech Transport Ministry on 15 February 2021.

The Trajeo’h association, set up by VINCI in 2008 to help companies recruit and retain people with disabilities, was recognised with two #activateurdeprogrès awards on 29 March.

As of 19 April, VINCI Airports (VINCI Concessions) is supplying sustainable biofuels to users of the Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne Airport, its first customer being Michelin Air Services.

In the Rhône Valley area, VINCI Autoroutes has received its very first electric van, a Renault Master ZE equipped with an autonomous mobile charging trailer.

A consortium of VINCI Construction companies – VINCI Construction Terrassement (lead), Weiler, Entreprise Jean Lefebvre Lorraine and Signature Lorraine – has been selected by Sanef, the company that holds the concession for the A4 motorway, to widen the section bypassing Metz to the north-east.

VINCI’s Combined Shareholders General Meeting, chaired by Xavier Huillard, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, was held on 8 April 2021 at the company’s head office in Rueil Malmaison. It took place behind closed doors due to the Covid-19 epidemic.

On completion of a call for tenders initiated by ANAC (Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil), VINCI Airports was today awarded a 30-year concession for seven airports of the North region of Brazil: Manaus, Porto Velho, Rio Branco, Boa Vista, Cruzeiro do Sul, Tabatinga and Téfé.

Today, VINCI announces the signing of an agreement to acquire ACS’s energy business.

The shareholders of VINCI are informed that the Company’s Combined Ordinary and Extraordinary General Meeting will be held behind closed doors and without shareholders being physically present

The Femern, a road and rail immersed tunnel, is being built 40 metres below the surface of the Baltic. At 18 km long, the tunnel is set to be the longest of its kind in the world.

In Colombia, the teams from VINCI Concessions managing the Bogotá–Girardot motorway resumed the upgrading and widening work carried out by VINCI Construction and Conconcreto.

In 2021, the work experience placement as part of the Give Me Five initiative will be rolled out in a new and totally transformed format in order to adapt to the ongoing pandemic. Taking place over two days instead of the previous five, educational workshops are adapted to comply with hygiene measures, participants will hear from our teams via video and remain at their schools instead of coming to our worksites and infrastructure.

Effective 8 February 2021, Xavier Luscan has been appointed as VINCI's Insurance Director, reporting to Christian Labeyrie, Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer.

The health crisis resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic severely impacted VINCI’s financial performance in 2020.

The Société du Grand Paris has entrusted the general contracting work to develop 17 service structures located on the south-east stretch of the Line 15 of the Grand Paris Express transport network to the joint venture made up of VINCI Construction and VINCI Energies subsidiaries.

Entrepose Contracting, VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Taylor Woodrow, all VINCI Construction subsidiaries, have been awarded an EPC contract by National Grid to construct a 190,000 m3 liquefied natural gas (LNG) tank in the United Kingdom.

Since 2017, teams from VINCI Construction* have been working with Caroli BAT and Caroli TP on the Testimonio II project in Monaco for Groupe Marzocco and VINCI Immobilier. The project’s immense scale comes not only from the complexity of the work involved, but also the extensive range of environmental measures applied.

VINCI Immobilier has acquired a 50.1% stake in Urbat Promotion, a property developer that specialises in the construction of housing in the south of France, bringing its shares of the company to 100%

The Nouvelle-Aquitaine regional prefecture has approved the final offsetting measures put in place along the entire SEA HSL by LISEA (VINCI Railways/VINCI Concessions).

In mid-December 2020, Fondation VINCI pour la Cité announced the launch of its 15th international sponsorship structure in Colombia.

Thierry Mirville has been appointed Chief Financial Officer of VINCI Construction, reporting to Pierre Anjolras, member of VINCI’s Executive Committee and Chairman of VINCI Construction business line.

After 18 months of work, the new multimodal car park in Longvilliers, located on the A10 (VINCI Autoroutes network) in Yvelines around 50 km southeast of Paris, went into service on 14 December 2020.

Alongside its peers in the CAC 40 index, VINCI has pledged to transparently disclose its activities’ climate-related impacts, following the recommendations from the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).

Xavier Huillard, VINCI’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, has appointed Pierre Anjolras, member of VINCI’s Executive Committee, Chairman of VINCI Construction on 12 January 2021.