Mota-Engil to build highway in Poland for 72 million

  • ECO News
  • 30 November 2020

The Portuguese construction company claims to have won the project after a competitive tender that brought together nine international companies.

The national construction company Mota-Engil, through its subsidiary Mota-Engil Central Europe, won the tender to build a highway in Poland, in a project valued at 72 million euros, the company announced in a statement.

The project and construction of the S19 highway at Białystok Południe – Ploski. In the 13 km section two lanes will be built in 36 months in each direction, including a reservation for the third lane, and the development of the project and consequent construction is foreseen in contract, to be finished in 2024, explains Mota-Engil.

For this project, were in the tendering process “some of the biggest European companies,” being the Portuguese company led by Gonçalo Moura Martins the chosen to build the highway.

“Mota-Engil Central Europe was selected for a project in a segment of activity such as road construction where it has been strengthening its position in the Polish market since 1996, being for several years among the fifteen largest companies in the Polish engineering and construction market,” highlights the Portuguese construction company.

Mota-Engil closed last week a deal with the Chinese group CCCC, which will buy 23% of the national construction company for 169.4 million euros. Additionally, the Chinese will subscribe 100 million new shares of a capital increase that is planned and will hold a stake “slightly” above 30% of Mota-Engil.