A consortium in which Aceona participated has been awarded a contract in New Zealand To improve Auckland’s transport system, A project initially estimated at 700 million New Zealand dollars (410 million euros).
The work includes, among other measures, the construction of new lanes exclusively for buses and bicycles. This will help reduce travel time in the city by around 20 minutes and reduce motor vehicle trafficthus allowing for reduction of pollutant emissions.
In addition, the contract also includes the pre-investigation, design and construction of a new bus station in Pakuranga, a district east of Auckland. for now, The New Zealand government has announced $281 million in funding (165 million Euros) for the project.
As announced by the public agency responsible for Auckland Transport, the consortium appointed to design and plan this new transport system, apart from Acciona It will be developed by Fletcher, Egham and Jacobs.
In this way, the Spanish company repeats its alliance with Fletcher in 2016, when the two were awarded a 25-year construction and management contract for the highway between Buhoi and Warkworth, north of Auckland, under a public-private partnership (PPP) formula. Aceona’s first project in New Zealand.
Aceona landed in Australia in 2002 It is also currently one of the major players in the Oceania infrastructure market, where Acciona Energy, its independent business unit focused on renewables, has also closed long-term energy sales contracts.
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