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German tunnel portal: structural works completed
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Road to prosperity Fehmarn Belt Tunnel
Travelling by road or rail between Scandinavia and Hamburg has long meant either a detour through western Denmark or a 45-minute ferry between Rødbyhavn, on the Danish island of Lolland, and Puttgarden, on the German island of Fehmarn. An 18km road and rail tunnel under the Fehmarn Belt, the strait between the two, is meant to change that: once it opens, the crossing will take ten minutes by car and seven by train, and the rail journey between Copenhagen and Hamburg will be halved to two and a half hours.
Rather than being bored through the seabed, the tunnel is being assembled on it, from 89 concrete sections cast at a factory in Rødbyhavn and floated out one at a time. Femern, the state-owned Danish company building it, has put the cost at €7.4 billion, most of it paid by Denmark and €1.3 billion by the EU, to be repaid from tolls over some 40 years.
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The fourth section was lowered into place at the end of September, putting nearly 900 metres of the tunnel on the seabed. When the rest will follow is less certain. The tunnel had been due to open in 2029; Sund & Bælt, the state-owned company behind the project, says it will recalculate the schedule and the budget once six sections are down, which it expects by the end of the year.
On Lolland, one of Denmark’s poorest areas, the question is what the tunnel will leave behind besides traffic. The government has designated a state industrial park at Rødbyhavn, and the council says it has held talks with 15 companies, from offshore wind to defence, about setting up there. Not everyone is convinced that will be enough: the head of a cross-border business organisation has pointed to the Channel Tunnel, whose endpoints at Dover and Calais remain places people pass through, and has called for a joint Danish-German growth plan. Building the tunnel may turn out to be the easy part.
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The Fehmarnbelt Tunnel is approaching its first kilometre
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[Backgrounder] Bornholm Energy Island
When Denmark decided in 2020 to build windfarms in the Baltic Sea off the island of Bornholm, the idea was that the power they produced would be brought ashore, converted at a station there and sent by cable to greater Copenhagen and to northern Germany. With a combined capacity of 3GW, the windfarms would have…
Read MoreThe first element of the Fehmarnbelt tunnel successfully immersed
After a multi-day operation, the first of a total of 89 concrete elements for the Fehmarnbelt tunnel is now in place on the seabed. The historic event began late on Monday evening, 4 May 2026. Five tugboats and the special immersion vessel IVY transported the tunnel element from the tunnel factory at Rødbyhavn on the Danish island of Lolland to the immersion point off the Danish coast.
Around noon on Wednesday, the immersion itself began. Approximately 14 hours later, the dedicated position in the Fehmarnbelt had been reached, and the first tunnel element had been positioned precisely in the tunnel trench in front of the Danish tunnel portal. Subsequently, the element was connected to the portal using hydraulic arms. The position was then finally confirmed by precise laser measurements inside the immersed tunnel element. Later in the day, IVY will then be released from the element.
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Originally published on 7 May
Read MoreFirst tunnel element of the Fehmarnbelt tunnel to be immersed
The first of the 89 concrete elements that will make up the future Fehmarnbelt tunnel between Denmark and Germany is now on its way to the immersion point off the coast near Rødbyhavn on the Danish island of Lolland.
The 217-metre-long and 73,500-tonne concrete element left the work harbour of the tunnel factory at 9 pm on 4 May 2026. In preparation of the immersion, the contractors added a further 4,500 tonnes of ballast concrete to ensure the element is heavy enough to sink to the seabed. Now the just over two-kilometre journey to the immersion point off the future tunnel portal has just begun.
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Originally published on 4 May
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