Denmark's Fehmarn Belt port

摘要

The Danish government said it will create a large port area east of the small town of Rodbyhavn to facilitate construction of the future Fehmarn Belt tunnel link. The US$7.5 billion project is an 18km tunnel including two railway tunnels, two motorway tunnels and an emergency tunnel. Construction start is scheduled for later this year and should take between six and seven years. The tunnel is part of the major infrastructure project called the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link to connect the German island of Fehmarn with the Danish island of Lolland. The tunnel will cross the 18km-wide Fehmarn Belt, or Fehmarn Strait, in the Baltic Sea. Fehmarn is already connected by bridge to the German mainland and Lolland is already connected by a tunnel and bridges to Zealand over the island of Falster. Zealand is the most populated island in Denmark with a population of just under 2.5 million, representing about 45% of the country's inhabitants. Femern A/S isasubsidiary of Sund & Baelt Holding A/S, which is 100% owned by the Danish Ministry of Transport.