The award confirms Salini Impregilo’s world leadership in the railway and metro sector.

March 28, 2014 - The Salini Impregilo Group (with 19%) together with Ansaldo Breda (with 12%) and Ansaldo STS (with 15%) of the Finmeccanica Group, as partner of an International consortium which includes the Spanish Groups ACS Dragados (the consortium’s leader with 25%) and FCC (19%) and the Peruvian Builders Cosapi (10%) will be carrying out the maxi project promoted by PROINVERSION - Agencia de Promocion de la Inversion Privada for the concession for the construction and management of the expansion of the metro network in Lima, Peru.

The concession’s total value is approximately 9 billion dollars, of which approximately 4.7 billion for the construction of the civil works and the rest for the management of the infrastructure during the 35 year concession period. Salini Impregilo has a 26% share in the construction of the civil works; value of the Group’s participation in the concession $1.7 billion.

The project is expected to be completed in 5 years and is divided into line 2 (27km) and part of line 4 (8km) for a total of 35 km of underground tunnels. It also includes 35 stations and 2 storage areas and 2 interchange stations between the lines.

Salini Impregilo, which has to date built over 340 km of underground lines, is one of the world leaders in the railways and subways sector: presently it is carrying out the construction of the metros of Milan, Rome (Italy) Copenhagen (Denmark), Thessaloniki (Greece) Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Doha (Qatar), Santiago (Chile) San Francisco (USA) and Sydney (Australia).

Salini Impregilo’s CEO, Pietro Salini, commented with great satisfaction, on the latest success of Italian technical and technological expertise after having won the bidding for the new metro line in Lima, Peru.

"Here again we have shown our strength in both experience and innovation and we have used these abilities to imagine and design a strategic project for the city of Lima and all of Peru. The new Lima metro has been designed with the utmost technical and state-of-the-art solutions in the world. This project will enable Peru  to strengthen itself even further as an area of ​​interest for international investment and will be able to satisfy the citizens’ needs for a better use of the city and contribute to reducing air pollution levels . I sincerely hope that this Italian success - which is a demonstration of the high capacity of Italian companies - will be an opportunity for new jobs for Italian companies in the sector”.