Buenos Aires – Italferr, a company of FS Engineering Group, has entered a contract for the construction of Soterramiento Sarmiento, an urban railway 36 kilometers located in the city of Buenos Aires with the international group of companies consisting of Brazil’s Odebrecht, the Italian Ghella and Argentine LECSA, called CNS UTE (Union Temporal de Empresas Consortium Nuevo Sarmento). The work involves the complete rehabilitation of the railway line through the creation of a new section of 18 kilometers of underground and 9 new stations. A tunnel 10.4 meters in diameter which will offer a metro-like service with a capacity of more than 150 million passengers a year. (9Colonne)
