Fehmarn Island
SÜLZLE Stahlpartner supplies Northern Europe’s largest infrastructure project
The Fehmarnbelt tunnel, the longest immersed tunnel project in the world, is making steady progress. The Danish project company Femern A/S is responsible for the planning, construction and operation of the tunnel. The ground-breaking ceremony on the Danish side took place at the beginning of January 2021, followed by the official start of construction on the German side near Puttgarden at the end of November 2021. These milestones mark the start of a project that will bring Germany and Denmark closer together. The SÜLZLE Group is proud to be involved in this project as a preferred project partner. The tunnel portal on the German side will be supplied with a total of around 15,000 tonnes of reinforcing steel from SÜLZLE Stahlpartner in Lübeck from September 2023 to December 2025.
The tunnel is 18 kilometres long and connects the German island of Fehmarn with the Danish island of Lolland. It will accommodate a four-lane motorway and a double-track, electrified railway line and significantly shorten the travel time between the two countries.
An important step was the commissioning of the German working harbour in July 2023, which will supply the construction site on land with materials and thus reduce delivery traffic by lorry. The completion of the Fehmarnbelt tunnel, planned for 2029, will significantly improve mobility for companies, tourists, cross-border commuters and all other travellers on both sides of the Belt. The journey through the tunnel will take ten minutes by car and seven minutes by train. The fixed link closes a gap in the rail network between Scandinavia and Central Europe.