The con­cre­ting of the first tun­nel cei­ling was suc­cessfully com­ple­ted in mid-March 2025. This important pro­gress not only ensu­res that the freight rail­way line will be relo­ca­ted on sche­dule in June 2025, but also repres­ents a decisive step in the fur­ther deve­lo­p­ment of the entire pro­ject — of the utmost importance for our cus­to­mer, DEGES GmbH! 

Why is this mile­stone so important?

The port rail­way line, one of the most important trans­port rou­tes for goods from the sea­port of Ham­burg to the inland, curr­ently runs to the east of our tun­nel con­s­truc­tion site and will be swung onto the first three tun­nel blocks we have com­ple­ted during a four-day train clo­sure in June 2025. The resul­ting con­s­truc­tion free­dom will give the go-ahead for our work on the eas­tern con­s­truc­tion pit. 

Thanks to the extra­or­di­nary com­mit­ment of our team on site, as well as our busi­ness part­ners, we, as a relia­ble part­ner, remain on track with the imple­men­ta­tion of the ambi­tious con­s­truc­tion sche­dule and, tog­e­ther with the cli­ent, are con­fi­dently loo­king for­ward to the mile­sto­nes still to be achie­ved in the project.

After com­ple­tion of the shell of the first three tun­nel blocks in April 2025, a fur­ther 23 tunnel/trough seg­ments still need to be built — 13 of these in the west excava­tion pit alre­ady con­s­truc­ted and 10 seg­ments in the east excava­tion pit still to be con­s­truc­ted. In addi­tion to the chal­len­ging por­tal struc­tures, two fire water basins and an ope­ra­ti­ons buil­ding will also be added.