the construction of the Gallery of Base of Brenner proceeds quickly and the work will be inaugurated in 2026



The construction of the Gallery of Base of Brenner is quickly proceeding and the 64 kilometers of the "plain railroad", that it will be the more meaningful infrastructural work of the European Corridor n. 5 the Scandinavia-Mediterranean and that longer basement of the world will become the railway line, will be inaugurated in 2026.

Yesterday the yard in Ahrental for the construction of the new tunnel is visited by a delegation formed from the minister of the Inside and the transports Bavarian, Joachim Herrmann, from the president of the Land Tirol, Günther Platter, from the city council member to Mobility of the Province of Bolzano, Florian Mussner, and from the representatives of the municipalities of Bavaria, interested Nordtirolo and Alto Adige from the drafts of access to the tunnel. To the visit a round table is continuation on the topic "Three Countries - a single held objective" near the center of the tirolese parliament.

In the course of the Konrad Bergmeister encounter, member of the council of management of the BBT IF, the society that takes care of the planning and construction of the Gallery of Base, has explained that up to now the figure of about a billion of euro in the construction is invested of what more represents the financed infrastructural project in the EU. With the confidence of the constructive lottery Mules-Brenner happened this month and the imminent contest of contract for more consisting the work than construction realized in Austria (lottery of Pfons-Brenner construction), that it will happen in the course of this year - has specified - is contractually regulated 85% of the total performances for the construction of the Gallery of Base of Brenner.

On the whole the length of the system of tunnel of the Gallery of Base will be of 230 kilometers, of which currently 54 kilometers are completed some. The cost total of the entire work is pairs to ten billions of euro, of which the European Union it will cover 50% of the costs of planning and 40% of the construction costs.

"In 10 years from now - it has emphasized the president of the Land Tirol, Günther Platter - work BBT will not be only longer the railway gallery of the world, but also the infrastructural project more important in our Country. We need this gallery in order to place a brake to the high volumes of traffic that cross Tirol. This represents ours must in confronts of tirolese people".

Also Bavarian minister Joachim Herrmann has evidenced the importance of the new work in particular for the State of Bavaria whose economy, centralized on the exports, must be able to count on a efficient infrastructure for the transport of the goods. "The tunnel of base of Brenner - it has found the minister - eliminates the neck of bottle of Brenner and remarkablly increases to the competitiveness of the railroads regarding the transport fleeting and goods on the road. The tunnel shortens the marine and terrestrial transport between Bavaria and the Far East and the countries of the Mediterranean regarding that through the ports of the Sea of the North and contributes to reduce the polluting traffic".