by Viktor Zeuthen | Sep 29, 2019 | Infrastrukture
The Federal Government adopted its infrastructure plan for 2030 on 3 August. The plan includes approximately 1,000 projects, including electrification of and improvements to 2 tracks of the German railway line between Fehmarn Tunnel and Lübeck. So far, 1.6 billion....
by Viktor Zeuthen | Sep 29, 2019 | Infrastrukture
Progress is being made towards the creation of a fixed link under the Fehmarnbelt. On 4 March 2016, a political agreement was reached in Denmark among the parties behind the Fehmarnbelt project that Femern A/S may enter into conditional contracts with the preferred...
by Viktor Zeuthen | Sep 29, 2019 | Infrastrukture
A new survey amongst citizens in Schleswig-Holstein, by the prestigious FORSA Institute, shows that 51 percent of respondents back the Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link. The Schleswig-Holsteiner’s resistance against the Fehmarn project is not so pronounced and unambiguous...
by Viktor Zeuthen | Sep 29, 2019 | Infrastrukture
In the wake of the STRING conference in Stockholm on the integration of infrastructure in Scandinavia and Northern Europe, there is an even stronger call for the formation of a Danish-Swedish infrastructure commission. Two representatives of the Swedish and Danish...
by Viktor Zeuthen | Sep 29, 2019 | Infrastrukture
More than 120 participants from Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland joined forces to discuss how to build connectivity across national borders and barriers. The time has come to think in bigger pictures – to zoom out on the map! To open the conference,...
by Viktor Zeuthen | Sep 29, 2019 | Infrastrukture
First along we saw the “Beltretter” – “Belt Savers”. They were, and are, against the Fehmarn project and highly critical of the modernisation of the railway and road connection to the tunnel between Lübeck and Puttgarden. At the beginning of the year...
