Strabag boss Hans Peter Haselsteiner said today (Weds) his company wanted to protect itself from volatile cement market prices as the firm is set to cooperate with the cement productions world market leader.Haselsteiner and Bruno Lafont, head of French firm Lafarge, announced yesterday the companies joint venture will start doing business by the beginning of […]
A controversial motorway tender deal in Romania that was bitterly contested by Austrian firm Strabag has collapsed after the winning French-Greek consortium pulled out of the deal.Romanian Times reports today (Thurs) that a consortium of French construction group Vinci and Greek builder Aktor withdrew from the 4.8-billion-Euro deal.The deal involved building of a 58-kilometre motorway […]
By William GreenMore than 200,000 Vienna residents have signed a petition against the controversial expansion of a nuclear power plant in Slovakia, a city councillor has claimed.Social Democratic (SPÖ) environmental councillor Ulli Sima, who had started postcard and online campaigns against its expansion, said today (Thurs) that 204,162 people had signed the petition.She said: “We […]