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FCC to build and operate Guipúzcoa Waste

Management Park for 322 million euro

FCC wins contract for another railway line in Algeria

worth over 1.23 Billion euro

FCC has been awarded the contract for the design, project management, construction and commissioning of the Guipúzcoa Was-te Management Park, as well as its ope-ration for 5 years, extendible by additional 5-year periods. The contract is worth 322 million euro.

Municipal solid waste from the entire Gui-púzcoa region will be treated at these fa-cilities which comprises a mechanical biological pre-treatment plant, an energy-from-waste plant, and ancillary facilities The plant will be located in Arzabaleta, in the San Sebastián neighbourhood of Zubieta.

Energy for 68,000 households

The facility will be built on a 54,268 m 2 site. It will have an annual treatment capacity of 320,000 tonnes, of which 208,000 ton-

The Algerian government, through Anes-rif (Agence National de Études et Suivi de Réalisations des Investissements Ferro-viaires), has awarded FCC, in consortium with Algerian Groupe ETRHB HADDAD, a contract to build 66 km. of railway line for 1.232 billion euro. This is the second largest

nes/year will be general household waste, 62,000 general commercial waste, 20,000 non-compostable non-recyclable waste, and 30,000 biosludge.

The centre will produce 203,320,000 Kw/

hour/year, equivalent to the annual con-sumption of 68,000 households.

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railway contract awarded to FCC in Alge-ria, following the contract obtained in May 2010 worth over 930 million euro.The line covered by this new contract from the Al-gerian Transport Ministry will link the city of Tlemcen (500 km. west of Algiers) with the frontier post at Akkid Abbas and will form

part of the planned line connecting Oued Tlélat to the Moroccan border. This seg-ment of line must be built in 48 months.

This investment is part of the economic development programme for 2009-2014, which has a budget of approximately 150 billion dollars (around 110 billion euro) and is focused basically on infrastructure.

The frst two-thirds of the route, in western Algeria, crosses quite abrupt terrain and will require the construction of 34 viaducts and 9 tunnels. Tunnels and viaducts will account for over 30% of the total length of this section of line.

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