Press releases

The final section (Section 8) of the new Moscow – Saint Petersburg (M11) motorway was officially opened on 27 November 2019 at a ceremony presided over by Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, and attended by Yves-Thibault de Silguy, Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors, VINCI and Nicolas Notebaert, Chief Executive Officer, VINCI Concessions.

On 14 November 2019, VINCI Construction Grands Projets signed a contract with the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority to design and build the Bakheng water treatment plant in the northern outskirts of the Cambodian capital.

The bypass around Regina, capital of the Province of Saskatchewan in Canada, was officially opened today in the presence of Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, Xavier Huillard, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of VINCI, Pierre Anjolras, Chairman of Eurovia and Nicolas Notebaert, Chief Executive Officer of VINCI Concessions.

VINCI Construction, via its subsidiary Bessac¹ and in a general partnership with the Canadian Pomerleau company, has won a contract to build new pipelines for the Annacis Island wastewater treatment plant near Vancouver.

VINCI is today launching work to upgrade the runways and runway lighting system at the Toulon Hyres airport. VINCI Airports began operating the airport in 2015 under a 25-year French government concession awarded by the Direction Générale de l’Aviation Civile (DGAC - civil aviation authority) and the French Ministry of the Armed Forces (Navy).

During the third quarter of 2019, passenger numbers across all VINCI Airports facilities rose 6.9% relative to the third quarter of 2018, with a total of 72 million passengers served by the 46 airports in the network¹.

Xavier Huillard, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of VINCI, has appointed Isabelle Spiegel to head the VINCI Environment Department. She will report to Pierre Coppey, Executive Vice-President of VINCI, and her assignment will be to implement VINCI’s new environment goals.

VINCI Energies has just acquired two subsidiaries of the Andalusian company Grupo Solar Lighting, SISTEM Melesur Energía and SISTEM Infraestructuras y Operaciones EPC.

As part of the implementation of its share buyback programme, VINCI signed a share purchase agreement with an investment services provider on 30 September 2019.

VINCI Energies has acquired the German telecommunications infrastructure company OFM. In operation for over 50 years, OFM has built up expertise in telecoms infrastructure, where it provides services in engineering, installation and maintenance of fixed-line networks.

The INSA Foundation signs a five-year partnership agreement with VINCI to support the development and dissemination of the INSA model, which is France’s leading network of engineering schools.

VINCI is extending and enriching its “a force for good” advertising campaign this autumn.

The Balfour Beatty VINCI SYSTRA HS2 joint venture today announces its formal contract award for the management of the construction and delivery of HS2’s new c. £1 billion Old Oak Common station.

Eurovia, as part of a joint venture with Strabag Rail and Elektrizace železnic Praha, has signed the contract to upgrade the 8.7 km section between the Smíchov station in Prague and the city of Èernošice southwest of the capital.

Operated by VINCI Airports and its partners under a concession contract since 2016, Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport has won Airports Council International’s “ACI Europe Best Airport 2019 Award” in the 10-25 million passengers category.

On Friday, 2 August 2019, Panamanian President, Laurentino Cortizo, and Panama Canal Administrator, Jorge Quijano, unveiled the Atlantic Bridge in Colón.

VINCI announces the publication today of its 2019 half-year financial report as well as its submission to the French financial markets’ regulator (l’Autorité des marchés financiers).

The Link Alliance, which includes VINCI Construction subsidiaries VINCI Construction Grands Projets (main contractor) and Soletanche Bachy International, along with their partner Downer and designers Aecom, WSP-Opus, and Tonkin & Taylor, has today signed the Design-Construction Alliance contract for Package 3 of the City Rail Link project in New Zealand.

A Joint Venture composed of Entrepose Contracting and VINCI Construction Grands Projets, both subsidiaries of VINCI Construction, has been awarded a major contract. Worth CAD $400 million (about €270 million), the contract covers the engineering, procurement and construction of a 225,000 m3 Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) tank in Canada.

On the occasion of his official visit to the Republic of Serbia, Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic, joined Aleksandar Vučić, President of the Republic of Serbia, to launch the Belgrade airport modernisation project alongside Xavier Huillard, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of VINCI and Nicolas Notebaert, President of VINCI Airports and Chief Executive Officer of VINCI Concessions.

During the second quarter of 2019, passenger numbers across the VINCI Airports network increased by 7.3% compared to the second quarter of 2018, with a total of 66.2 million passengers handled by 46 airports¹ in the network.

VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Bouygues Travaux Publics, partners in the NOVARKA consortium, symbolically handed over the key to the Chernobyl New Safe Confinement to the Ukrainian authorities at a ceremony that was held on site on Wednesday 10 July, in the presence of the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky.

VINCI is launching an advertising campaign on the issue of "doing useful work" to reaffirm its determination to build a more sustainable world and fully embrace its role as a private-sector partner, serving the public interest.

As part of the implementation of its share buyback programme, VINCI signed a share purchase agreement with an investment services provider on 26 June 2019.

VINCI Construction, through its subsidiary Freyssinet*, is launching Concreative, a new company focused on 3D printing of high-performance concrete. The company offers a fully integrated service, from design to on-site installation.

The Czech railway infrastructure administration has selected Eurovia as part of a joint venture with Elektrizace železnic Praha to refurbish the 6 km railway section between Lysá nad Labem and Èelákovice northeast of Prague, which serves 15,000 passengers per day.

On 24 April 2019, Europe 1 broadcast a report in which VINCI was accused of having dumped concrete into the Seine from a VINCI Construction-Spie Batignolles plant supplying the sites of the “e-déf, Eole-La Défense” project.

VINCI Energies, via its subsidiary Eitech, a Swedish leading specialist within electrical installation, has signed a contract with the consortium NCC Sverige AB and Wayss & Freytag Ingeniurbau AG regarding the execution for all technical installations in project Station Korsvägen, in Gothenburg.

Today, VINCI Airports completed the acquisition of a majority shareholding (50.01%) in London Gatwick airport, a freehold property and the UK’s second-largest airport. London Gatwick airport is an asset with substantial growth potential and the transaction fits perfectly into the VINCI Concessions long-term investment strategy.

The city of Ottawa has selected East West Connectors, a joint venture led by Kiewit (60%) and VINCI (40%) through its subsidiaries Eurovia, VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Dodin Campenon Bernard, to build the extension to the Confederation Line, one of the two lines in Stage 2 of Ottawa’s O-Train light rail transit (LRT) system.

The consortium consisting of VINCI Construction Grands Projets (50% share and lead contractor) and Acciona Agua S.A. (50%) won the contract for the design-build portion of phase 1 for the Nhieu Loc-Thi Nghe wastewater treatment plant, in Ho Chi Minh City.

Transport Infrastructure Ireland, the state agency in charge of roads and railways infrastructure in the Republic of Ireland, just signed an 11-year contract with Turas, a joint-venture comprising VINCI Highways, subsidiary of VINCI Concessions, and Abtran, the largest Irish-owned business process management provider, to manage freeflow transactions services and customer relations on the Dublin ring road (M50 motorway).

VINCI’s Combined Shareholders’ General Meeting, chaired by Xavier Huillard, the Group’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, was held on 17 April 2019 at the Salle Pleyel in Paris. The quorum was 62,027% and the shareholders’ meeting approved all the resolutions submitted.

VINCI suggests all building companies in France should join forces to rebuild Notre Dame in an industry-wide skills sponsorship drive, possibly led by the Fondation du Patrimoine (French heritage foundation), so as to begin work and restore Paris’ cathedral as rapidly as possible.

VINCI formally denies the rumours appearing in the press that discussions are taking place with the State on the compensation payments for termination of the airports concession agreement in the Grand Ouest region of France.

In the first quarter of 2019, traffic across platforms operated by VINCI Airports increased 6.4% ⁽¹⁾ compared to the first quarter of 2018, with a total of 47.6 million passengers served in the network airports.

The board of directors of Consortium Stade de France, a joint venture between VINCI (67%) and Bouygues (33%), voted unanimously in favour of Pierre Coppey’s proposal to separate the company’s chairmanship and executive management. Pierre Coppey will continue to serve as chairman and Henry de la Monneraye as vice-chairman. Alexandra Boutelier will take over Pierre Coppey’s duties as chief executive officer.

VINCI has successfully issued a US$ 1 billion bond, maturing in April 2029 and carrying an annual coupon of 3.750%.

As part of the implementation of its share buyback programme, VINCI signed a share purchase agreement with an investment services provider on 2 April 2019.

The global union federation BWI (Building and Wood Workers’ International) conducted the first on-site audit of the operations of QDVC (a Qatari company owned by Qatari Diar Real Estate Investments Company and VINCI Construction Grands Projets) in Qatar on 8 and 9 January 2019, accompanied by French trade union representatives (CGT, CFDT and CFE/CGC) from VINCI.

VINCI is very sad to announce the death of Serge Michel, the former chairman of our group (formerly SGE) and a member of our Board of Directors.

Arnaud Grison began his career in 1992 at the French Ministry of Transportation, in charge of road construction projects in Savoie (France). In 1997 he joined SITA, the waste management subsidiary of the Suez group, where he held operating and senior management positions.

The 2018 Annual Report is now available in English on the Group’s website at www.vinci.com under Investors / Financial information / Annual and half-year reports.

In the context of the upcoming acquisition by its subsidiary VINCI Airports of a 50.01% shareholding in London Gatwick Airport, VINCI has successfully issued a £800 million bond, divided between a £400 million bond maturing in March 2027 and carrying an annual coupon of 2.25%, and a £400 million bond maturing in September 2034 and carrying an annual coupon of 2.75%.

Carmacks, a subsidiary of Eurovia, one of the world’s leading players in transport infrastructure construction and urban development, has won the maintenance contract for the Deerfoot Trail in Calgary, Alberta.

VINCI filed today its 2018 Registration Document with the French financial markets regulator, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF).

VINCI today announces the launch of “Give Me Five”, an ambitious scheme designed to combat inequality. Through it, in partnership with the French ministry of Education, the Group intends to reinvent the compulsory work experience placement for lower secondary school students in France and pledges to welcome 5,000 pupils a year from priority and high-priority education establishments

The Governor of the State of Virginia in the United States has announced it has selected the joint venture comprising VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Dodin Campenon Bernard, both VINCI Construction subsidiaries (33%), Dragados USA (42%) and Flatiron (25%), for the contract of extending and upgrading the I-64 between Hampton and Norfolk, worth €2.9 billion ($3.3 billion). The contract is expected to be executed in April 2019 with construction expected to conclude in 2025.

ASF (Autoroutes du Sud de la France) has successfully issued a €1 billion bond due to mature in February 2031 and carrying an annual coupon of 1.375 %.

VINCI announces the publication of its consolidated financial statements at 31 December 2018 (financial statements and notes) accompanied by the report of the statutory auditors on the consolidated financial statements.

CDP*, the international organisation formerly called the Carbon Disclosure Project, has just awarded VINCI an A- score in recognition of the steps it took to combat climate change.

VINCI has successfully issued a €950 million bond maturing in January 2029 and carrying an annual coupon of 1.625%.

VINCI Airports’ network handled close to 48 million passengers in Q4 2018 (7.2% more than in Q4 2017 on a like-for-like network base) and a total of 195.2 million passengers in FY 2018 (6.8% more than in 2017).

ANA – Aeroportos de Portugal, concessionnaire of 10 airports in Portugal and 100% subsidiary of VINCI Airports, signed on 8 January 2019 an agreement with the Portuguese governement on the main principles for the extension of the airport capacity in the Lisbon Region.

As part of the implementation of its share buyback programme, VINCI signed a share purchase agreement with an investment services provider on 2 January 2019.