The government of Portugal has asked France’s Vinci to submit a proposal for the construction and operation of a new international airport for Lisbon, the Aviacionline website reports. Portugal wants…

The kingdom of Jordan signed an agreement yesterday with a French-Egyptian consortium to build one of the world’s largest desalination plants, the New Arab news site reports. The Aqaba Amman…

Vinci Grands Projets is to team up with its sister companies GTM Sud-Oues and Chantiers Modernes Nouvelle-Aquitaine to design and build a waste-to-energy plant in the commune of Brive-la-Gaillarde, in…

Vinci Construction has announced an agreement to acquire the long-established UK public works contractor, FM Conway, through a share purchase. Founded in 1961 by Francis Michael Conway, and still owned…

Vinci Energies has announced the purchase of two Dutch companies operating in the maritime sector for an undisclosed amount. The companies bought from the same shareholder are RH Marine and…

A joint venture of Vinci subsidiary Seymour Whyte and John Holland, a subsidiary of China Communications Construction, has won a €432m (A$695m) contract to upgrade an approximately 42km-long section of…

Vinci Highways has won a 30-year concession to operate and modernise a 594km section of Brazil’s tolled BR-040 highway. It’s the company’s second in Brazil after taking a 55% stake…

Seymour Whyte, the Australian subsidiary of French contractor Vinci, has won two road contracts worth a total of US$230m in Sydney and Melbourne. The first, awarded by Transport for New…

The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) has chosen a team made up of French contractor Vinci and local company Walsh Construction to design and build the extension to the Red Line…

Vinci Airports has signed a $940m financing deal with a consortium of lenders to pay a concession fee to the Dominican Republic and build a $250m terminal at Las Américas…

Vinci subsidiary Cobra IS has won a €74m contract for piping and mechanical works on a major hydrogen-powered steel plant Thyssenkrupp is building in Duisburg, Germany. Cobra IS was picked…

A consortium of Vinci and Siemens has won a €2.9bn contract from German utility 50Hertz to design, build and install two converter stations to bring wind power from the North…

The government of Hungary has spent €3.1bn on renationalising Liszt Ferenc International Airport near Budapest by acquiring an 80% stake from owner-operator Vinci Airports. A handover ceremony was held on…

Vinci Construction Grands Projets has won a €94m design-build project to enlarge a drinking water plant supplying Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh. The customer is the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority,…

French contractor Vinci has bought two family-run firms to add to its road-building capacity in North America. One is Newport Construction based in New Hampshire in the US, and the…

Portugal will start negotiating with France’s Vinci about building and running Lisbon’s €9bn international airport in the next few days, Portuguese newspaper CM reports.  Ground could break by the end…

Vinci Construction’s Australian subsidiary Seymour Whyte has won a €96m contract to improve road access to Melbourne Airport. The contractor will upgrade the airport’s forecourt and build a 550m bridge…

French construction group Vinci, the largest in the world outside China, has activated its succession plan for the retirement of chief executive Xavier Huillard, due after the company’s annual general…