Repairing the banks and restoring the channel of the Nantes-Brest canal

28 December 2018 - New contracts - France

The Loire-Atlantique department has appointed VINCI Construction Terrassement to repair the banks and restore the channel of the Nantes-Brest canal.

Works package 1 concerns the reprofiling of 10 km of the canal bank with the installation of 22,000 wooden piles and works package 2 involves dredging and clearing all sorts of sediment using a barge excavator, with a bathymetric survey.

Launched in October 2018, the works, carried out between October and March (outside the navigation period), will extend through into 2022.