Rome-based GCF, or Generale Costruzioni Ferroviarie, has won two of the three contracts for the EUR2 billion construction project launched by the French rail national company, SNCF, to modernize the railway network. The project is called Suite Rapide and was adopted in France in 2009 with 400 kilometers of track renewed in the first three years. The entire plan will cost about EUR 5 billion to modernise just over one-third of the French railway network.
Specifically, the group of companies led by GCF with a 40% share has won a pair of deals worth EUR 1.33 billion carrying a commitment to renew 2,800 kilometers of track over seven years—nearly one-sixth of the total network. Other top European and French companies had bid as well. Each project will require the Italian group to open four to seven worksites each year, use high-performance equipment, hire a significant number of technicians and workers and, above all, to deliver, on average, one kilometer of fully renovated track per day.
GCF group also worked on the high-speed railway for Florence-Bologna, Turin-Novara, Novara-Milan, Rome-Naples and Treviglio–Brescia. The Italian group is also involved in other important railway projects as the Ceneri tunnel in Switzerland.
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