Webuild: From the Bosphorus Bridges to the GERD Dam, Now the Strategic Messina Bridge Hub

From the Panama Canal to the Bosphorus bridges, to the GERD dam in Ethiopia, Webuild will now construct another of the world's most important projects: the Messina Strait Bridge, a strategic hub for the European transport network that will connect Sicily to the Scandinavian-Mediterranean corridor, which traverses Europe from north to south along 7,500 kilometers of roads and railways. As a report aired today on 'Tg1' (Italian news agency), "the bridge is a 3,666-meter steel colossus with a single 3,300-meter span, three lanes in each direction and two railway tracks. The investment is over €13 billion. It is estimated that more than 100,000 workers will be employed, with a huge impact, especially on the social fabric of southern Italy as a whole."

WeBuild, Tg1 reports, "is the leading Italian group globally in the construction of large-scale infrastructure. It operates in approximately 50 countries, has 95,000 employees, and has completed 3,700 projects," including the expansion of the Panama Canal, the bridges over the Bosphorus in Turkey, and the one over the Danube in Braila, Romania. Among the major projects underway in Italy are the new Genoa breakwater and the Brenner Base Tunnel. The group has built over 13,000 kilometers of railways, 82,000 kilometers of roads and highways, and more than 300 dams. The GERD dam in Ethiopia, a monumental project that took 14 years to build, will be inaugurated in mid-September," the report concludes.