Inauguration of a widened and renovated section of the A9 in Germany

After three years of renovation and widening works, the 46.5 km section of the A9 will be operated and maintained by Via Gateway Thüringen.

1 October 2014 - Events - Germany

On 5 September 2014, Alexander Dobrindt, Germany’s Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, and Pierre Coppey, VINCI’s Chief Operating Officer, formally opened a new section of the A9 motorway, which links Berlin and Munich, in Germany. Created within the framework of a public-private partnership (PPP), this 46.5 km-long section is located in the state of Thuringia, between Lederhose and the regional border between Thuringia and Bavaria.

Created by Via Gateway Thüringen, a company owned 50/50 by VINCI Concessions and BAM PPP, the new section is the first German PPP motorway project involving remuneration based on availability for traffic rather than on the volume of traffic actually using the infrastructure. This new type of contract, known as a V-Modell contract, replaces the old A-Modell contracts and will from now on be standard for PPP motorway projects under development in Germany.

Worth a total of €220 million, this particular contract came into force in October 2011 and covers the financing, design, widening of 19 km to 2x3 lanes and renovation of 27.5 km, and then the operation and maintenance of the entire section for twenty years. The project was supervised by the state of Thuringia and DEGES, the public-sector company which takes charge of major transport infrastructure projects on behalf of the German government. The works, which took three years, were entrusted to a construction consortium headed by Eurovia in association with Wayss & Freytag Ingenieurbau (a Royal BAM subsidiary).