Press releases

The slight decrease in light vehicle traffic in April 2022 compared with April 2019 was due to higher fuel prices and negative calendar effects, with the spring school holidays falling later this year. Heavy vehicle traffic remained firm. At VINCI Airports, the upturn in passenger numbers accelerated in most countries in April.

VINCI Construction, through its subsidiary Sogea-Satom, was selected by the Côte d’Ivoire Ministry of Equipment and Road Maintenance to restore a stretch of the “Coastal Road” between Dabou and Grand Lahou, connecting the country’s two main port cities (Abidjan and San Pedro).

Seymour Whyte, a VINCI Construction subsidiary in Australia, has been selected by the NSW Government to build the central section of the new M12 motorway linking the future Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport to the motorway network in the Sydney area.

VINCI Construction, through its earthworks subsidiary specialised in major projects, will build the Springbank Off-Stream Reservoir located 15 km west of Calgary on behalf of the Canadian province of Alberta.

More than 30 million passengers travelled through VINCI Airports’ network in Q1 2022, i.e. three times more than in Q1 2021 (and 46.1% less than in 2019)

The shareholders of VINCI are invited to take part in the Company’s Combined Ordinary and Extraordinary General Meeting

Olympia Odos, a subsidiary 29.9%-owned by VINCI Concessions and concession holder for the motorway connecting Athens to Corinth and Patras that went into service in 2017, has signed a contract with the Greek authorities to extend the concession.

Seymour Whyte, an Australian subsidiary of VINCI Construction, has been awarded two new contracts in the country.

VINCI Autoroutes’ traffic levels continued to rise in February. VINCI Airports’ passenger numbers continued to improve in many countries in February, and particularly in Portugal, France, the United Kingdom and the United States.

BWI and the trade union representatives of VINCI (CGT, CFDT, CFE-CGC and FO) conducted a second audit of QDVC (a Qatari company owned by Qatari Diar and VINCI Construction Grands Projets) operations, sites and workers’ accommodation in Qatar on 26 and 27 October 2021. The audit comes as a follow-up to the first audit conducted in 2019, as part of the implementation of the agreement signed in 2017 on workers’ rights between BWI, VINCI and QDVC.

The Princely Government of Monaco has entrusted VINCI Construction with the structure, core and shell for the new Princess Grace Hospital in Monaco.

VINCI filed today its 2021 Universal Registration Document with the French financial markets regulator, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF).

Following the good trend seen in recent months, the traffic for VINCI Autoroutes continued to grow in January. The VINCI Airports passenger numbers, impacted in January by the Omicron variant, printed a slightly weaker trend than in the previous quarter across most of the airports in its network.

VINCI announces the publication of its consolidated financial statements at 31 December 2021 (financial statements and notes) accompanied by the report of the statutory auditors on the consolidated financial statements.

Xavier Huillard, VINCI’s Chairman and CEO, made the following comments: In 2020, Covid-19 had a major impact, but VINCI showed its resilience and ability to adapt to an unprecedented situation. In 2021, we achieved a strong recovery, which is all the more impressive since the public health situation has not yet stabilised. Our revenue was higher than in 2019 and our earnings rebounded, accompanied by record cash flow.

HEB Construction, a VINCI Construction subsidiary based in New Zealand, will be responsible for design and construction of the Takitimu North Link south-east of Auckland, in a joint venture with Fulton Hogan.

VINCI network airports welcomed almost 32 million passengers in the fourth quarter of 2021, down 46% compared to the same period in 2019 but more than double the figures in the fourth quarter of 2020. Over full-year 2021, some 86 million passengers were welcomed, 66% down on 2019 but up 12% compared to 2020.

As part of the implementation of its share buyback programme, VINCI signed a share purchase agreement with an investment services provider on 4 January 2022.