News update

On 22 September 1981, François Mitterand inaugurated France’s first TGV train, set to cover the 409 km separating Paris and Lyon in just 2 hours and 40 minutes. Forty years later, the national high-speed rail network has greatly expanded and now spans over 2,700 km, transporting more than 100 million passengers every year.

Multiple VINCI subsidiaries have expanded and renovated La Cotinière fishing port on the island of Île d’Oléron in Charente-Maritime, southwest France. In a three-year project, they created a third basin for the port as well as a landing quayside and a 40,000 m2 platform – large enough for a fish market twice the size of the previous one that will open to the general public. The project was carried out in an environmentally friendly way, following the tides and currents around the island, giving VINCI teams an opportunity to demonstrate their maritime expertise.

Airbus, Air Liquide and VINCI Airports, three major players in the aviation, hydrogen and airport industries, are working together to promote the use of hydrogen at airports and build the European airport network to accommodate future hydrogen aircrafts.

The World Congress for Nature, held from 3 to 11 September in Marseille, has been an opportunity for the Group to renew its commitment to preserve biodiversity and showcase the first results of its work.

From 30 August to 3 September, the diversity and inclusion week brought together all VINCI companies present in Brazil, i.e. 400 employees working on a daily basis.

After a two-year hiatus, the VINCI Cup was back this 28 and 29 August in Meudon – with a momentous new feature: it now includes women’s teams.

VINCI Energies has signed a public-private partnership with the state of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany regarding the construction and operation of a new agronomy faculty in Kiel.

In partnership with SOLIDEO, Paris 2024, the city of Saint-Denis and the Plaine Commune authority, VINCI Immobilier has launched the Universeine development project, set to be built by VINCI Construction France.

From 2 July to 21 August, the #BienArriver campaign will return to 26 service areas in our motorway network.

The concession holder of Faro airport, VINCI Airports, has launched the construction of a solar power plant, set to go into operation in 2022.

VINCI Airports (VINCI Concessions) is launching a local reforestation programme that will absorb the residual emissions of the Lyon-Saint Exupéry and Lyon-Bron airports, operated by our teams since 2016.

The Nice Le Ray complex, located on the site of the former Le Ray stadium in the heart of a 3-hectare landscaped public park, was inaugurated by VINCI Immobilier and the City of Nice on the 23rd of June.

Four of the five buildings that will make up L’Archipel, the new VINCI head office in Nanterre near Paris, were delivered on 25 June 2021.

In Uganda, teams from Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction) finished planting 17,500 trees in late April as part of an initiative they took on of their own volition in 2019 to offset the Katosi-Kampala transmission project.

In Côte d’Ivoire, a consortium led by Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction) with Egis, Baudin Chateauneuf and Alcor is currently delivering a new stadium in Yamoussoukro.

The city of Vienne in Isère has tasked a consortium formed of Easy Charge (a VINCI Autoroutes and VINCI Energies subsidiary specialising in electric mobility) and the Fund for the Ecological Modernisation of Transport (FMET) with the rollout and management of its public network of electric charging points.

The grand finale of Challenge Innovatech©, organised by VINCI partner Elles Bougent, took place on 6 May.

The Trajeo’h association, set up by VINCI in 2008 to help companies recruit and retain people with disabilities, was recognised with two #activateurdeprogrès awards on 29 March.

As of 19 April, VINCI Airports (VINCI Concessions) is supplying sustainable biofuels to users of the Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne Airport, its first customer being Michelin Air Services.

In the Rhône Valley area, VINCI Autoroutes has received its very first electric van, a Renault Master ZE equipped with an autonomous mobile charging trailer.

A consortium of VINCI Construction companies – VINCI Construction Terrassement (lead), Weiler, Entreprise Jean Lefebvre Lorraine and Signature Lorraine – has been selected by Sanef, the company that holds the concession for the A4 motorway, to widen the section bypassing Metz to the north-east.

The Femern, a road and rail immersed tunnel, is being built 40 metres below the surface of the Baltic. At 18 km long, the tunnel is set to be the longest of its kind in the world.

In Colombia, the teams from VINCI Concessions managing the Bogotá–Girardot motorway resumed the upgrading and widening work carried out by VINCI Construction and Conconcreto.

In 2021, the work experience placement as part of the Give Me Five initiative will be rolled out in a new and totally transformed format in order to adapt to the ongoing pandemic. Taking place over two days instead of the previous five, educational workshops are adapted to comply with hygiene measures, participants will hear from our teams via video and remain at their schools instead of coming to our worksites and infrastructure.

Since 2017, teams from VINCI Construction* have been working with Caroli BAT and Caroli TP on the Testimonio II project in Monaco for Groupe Marzocco and VINCI Immobilier. The project’s immense scale comes not only from the complexity of the work involved, but also the extensive range of environmental measures applied.

The Nouvelle-Aquitaine regional prefecture has approved the final offsetting measures put in place along the entire SEA HSL by LISEA (VINCI Railways/VINCI Concessions).

In mid-December 2020, Fondation VINCI pour la Cité announced the launch of its 15th international sponsorship structure in Colombia.

After 18 months of work, the new multimodal car park in Longvilliers, located on the A10 (VINCI Autoroutes network) in Yvelines around 50 km southeast of Paris, went into service on 14 December 2020.

Alongside its peers in the CAC 40 index, VINCI has pledged to transparently disclose its activities’ climate-related impacts, following the recommendations from the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).