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Six Concrete Proposals: Unlocking the Potential of the Fehmarn Region

Rail traffic over Øresund is expected to increase significantly when the Fehmarn Belt Tunnel opens in 2029.

Liberals want Sweden connected to the Fehmarn link

Parliamentary discussions between Denmark and Sweden on Øresund’s capacity must begin, according to the chairs of both countries' transport committees. Photo: Ritzau/Scanpix.

Feasibility study for additional Øresund link moves closer

Minister Morten Bødskov (Social Democrats) visited Nakskov Harbor on Monday, where he promised that the government has learned from the case of the Nakskov Fjord dredging project. Photo: Ministry of Business

Lessons from The Dredging Saga: Minister promises smoother ride

A different case of principled character must be resolved before the Environmental and Food Appeals Board can rule on Nakskov Harbor's dredging permit. Archive photo by Tummas Juul/Nakskov Harbor.

The dredging saga: Principled case must be settled before Nakskov harbor gets a decision

Region Zealand has so far been central to the cross-border cooperation in the Fehmarn Belt region. That will end with the health reform. Archive photo: State of Schleswig-Holstein.

No one to pay: Health reform could harm Danish-German cooperation

The chairman of the Danish Parliament’s Transport Committee, Social Democrat Rasmus Prehn, remains far from convinced that the German hinterland connection will be completed on time.

Committee chair on German delays: Not satisfactory

Nakskov Harbor has so far waited six years for the dredging permit that would allow them to begin deepening and establishing the sailing channel, so that large ocean-going transport ships carrying wind turbine blades can dock.

Silting Up: Processing of Sailing Channel Case Raises a Storm of Questions

CEO Lars Sandahl Sørensen from Dansk Industri wants the university reform renegotiated. The organization believes it hits far too hard.

DI wants to renegotiate university reform

Unresolved tax issues for Fehmarn commuters

The government will add 500 million kroner to the much-needed vocational training.

500 million to boost vocational education

The two candidates for the European Parliament, Christel Schaldemose from the Social Democrats (left) and Ulla Tørnæs from the Liberal Party, are in complete agreement with each other but are diametrically opposed to their party colleagues.

Contra message from EP candidates: Sweden must pay themselves

The two candidates for the European Parliament, Christel Schaldemose from the Social Democrats (left) and Ulla Tørnæs from the Liberal Party, are in complete agreement with each other but are diametrically opposed to their party colleagues.

Contra message from EP candidates: Sweden must pay themselves

The two Danish members of the European Parliament, Asger Christensen from the Liberal Party (second from the left) and Marianne Vind from the Social Democrats (furthest to the right), support the Swedish wish for an additional fixed link under the Øresund.

Before EU Election: Danish support for additional Øresund connection

From the left: Director Stig Rømer Winther from Femern Belt Development, Regional Council Chairman Heino Knudsen (Soc. Dem.) from Region Zealand, Mayor Holger Schou Rasmussen (Soc. Dem.) from Lolland Municipality, and Minister of the Interior, Transport, and Business Affairs Claus Ruhe Madsen (Independent) from Schleswig-Holstein.

First meeting on cross-border Fehmarn Belt Region

Stinus Lindgreen emphasizes that the conditions for the motorway over Egholm have changed.

The Radicals withdraws from Limfjord agreement

Stena Line's route between Trelleborg and Rostock is the only alternative to the Øresund Bridge for trains between Sweden and Europe.

Sweden to preserve Baltic Sea rail ferries

February 28th, the EU Court will rule in three cases concerning possible illegal state aid to the Femern project.

EU Court set to rule on state aid to Femern A/S

Business Minister Morten Bødskov has, in a reply to the Danish Democrats' Peter Skaarup, the status of the business beacons.

Government still believes in the business beacons

A connection facility to the Sydmotorvejen E47 east of Rødby might be able to be financed by a pool under the Infrastructure Plan 2035.

The Ministry of Transport stretches the municipality a hand about the motorway connection

The municipality on the island of Fehmarn would like to keep the working harbor at Puttgarden when the Fehmarn tunnel is finished

German municipality wants to keep tunnel harbour

The station at Copenhagen Airport will, among other things, be expanded with two extra platforms.

The Øresund railway is being upgraded for over one billion DKK

The government's proposal to ease the rules for foreign labor favors the largest companies, says SMVdanmark's director, Jacob Brandt.

SMVdanmark: Small businesses also need foreign labour

Several projects in the government's Infrastructure Plan 2035 cannot today be economically viable and should be dropped, writes Ingeniøren.

Infrastructure projects are bad social economy and should be dropped

Within the framework of the current law on transport companies, Lokaltog cannot run across national borders.

Legislation derails local trains through the Fehmarn tunnel

The working port at the element factory will become a commercial port in the future. The current business port/traffic port in Rødbyhavn must be a tourist and experience port according to Lolland Municipality's new strategy and master plan.

New master plan for port development on Lolland

Vordingborg wants a Fehmarn model for Storstrømsbro

Vordingborg wants a Fehmarn model for Storstrømsbro

There is a large political majority in favor of preserving the element factory in Rødbyhavn. But the factory must not be used as an excuse for construction projects, say SF and Radikale Venstre.

Transport spokesman: – The element factory must not become a kitchen machine

Sweden's ambassador to Denmark, Charlotte Wrangberg (center front) was impressed with what has happened at the Fehmarn project since she was last there about two years ago.

Sweden’s ambassador: We need more Øresund connections – and are willing to pay

There is broad political agreement to preserve the element factory in Rødbyhavn after the opening of the Fehmarntunnel. There is hardly as much agreement about the specific ownership.

Blue parties will sell the element factory – at any price

In a week's time, the future of the element factory will be decided, when the Danish Parliament will first consider the bill to preserve it after 2029.

Business Lolland-Falster: Permanent element factory will save CO2

The colossal working port next to the tunnel factory in Rødbyhavn could possibly be run in partnership between a private company and Lolland Municipality, suggests Lolland's mayor, Holger Schou Rasmussen.

Municipality is considering a partnership for the tunnel factory

The colossal working port next to the tunnel factory in Rødbyhavn could possibly be run in partnership between a private company and Lolland Municipality, suggests Lolland's mayor, Holger Schou Rasmussen.

Municipality is considering a partnership for the tunnel factory

Transport Minister Thomas Danielsen (V) visited the Femernbyggeriet in Rødbyhavn last week. He is in close dialogue with his German colleague about the progress of the German hinterland work.

The Minister of Transport follows Femernsund work closely

Transport Minister Thomas Danielsen (V) visited the Femernbyggeriet in Rødbyhavn last week. He is in close dialogue with his German colleague about the progress of the German hinterland work.

The Minister of Transport follows Femernsund work closely

The Roads Directorate and Sund & Bælt are in full swing with the feasibility studies for a possible fixed connection between Als and Funen.

Muddy seabed in the Little Belt teases the Als-Fyn connection

A planned new submerged tunnel under the Fehmarn Sound risks becoming a stone in the shoe for the entire Fehmarn project.

Analysis: Deutsche Bahn has a plan B for Fehmarnsound – and that’s actually not so good

It can be hard to get it all in a selfie when it comes to bridge construction. The chairman of the Danish Parliament's transport committee, Rasmus Prehn from the Social Democratic Party, nevertheless made the attempt when the committee visited the construction sites on both the new Storstrømsbro and the Fehmarn Tunnel.

The Transport Committee on bridge and tunnel inspection

When the coastline moves south on Lolland, the Beach Protection Line does not automatically follow.

Political pressure for a quick revision of the beach protection line at Rødbyhavn

The Environmental and Food Complaints Board has canceled Region Zealand's Raw Materials Plan 2022, so now it is the plan from 2016 that applies.

The Board of Appeal cancels Region Zealand’s resource plan

The Environmental and Food Complaints Board has canceled Region Zealand's Raw Materials Plan 2022, so now it is the plan from 2016 that applies.

The Board of Appeal cancels Region Zealand’s resource plan

Sund & Bælt is now ready with the environmental assessment of a possible permanent establishment of FLC's element factory in Rødbyhavn, which will form the basis for the political decision on the factory's future.

Environmental assessment of permanent element factory ready

Sund & Bælt is now ready with the environmental assessment of a possible permanent establishment of FLC's element factory in Rødbyhavn, which will form the basis for the political decision on the factory's future.

Environmental assessment of permanent element factory ready

Chairman of the Danish People's Party, Morten Messerschmidt, calls it 'strange' if Femern A/S makes use of oral agreements.

The Minister of Transport rejects shipowner’s complaint

Chairman of the Danish People's Party, Morten Messerschmidt, calls it 'strange' if Femern A/S makes use of oral agreements.

The Minister of Transport rejects shipowner’s complaint

Stefan Seidler (SSW) is the first member of the German Bundestag from the Danish minority in South Schleswig since 1949. He is not particularly optimistic about whether things will be finished on time on the German side of the Fehmarn Belt.

Member of the Bundestag: Germany probably not ready for Fehmarn opening in 2029

The Road Directorate's director, Jens Holmboe (tv), and Die Autobahn GmbH Des Bundes' director, Stephan Krenz (th), with the signed cooperation agreement.

Danish and German road authorities sign cooperation agreement

The groundwater reserves in Lolland are not sufficient for a permanent precast concrete factory in Rødbyhavn, so Lolland Municipality assumes that technical water is used in the factory instead of waterworks water

Sund & Bælt will investigate alternatives to tap water for the element factory

Morten Messerschmidt. The chairman of the Danish People's Party's group in the EU Parliament, Anders Vistisen, is prepared to repay EU funds if the money has been improperly used to hold the Danish People's Party's summer group meetings in Denmark in 2014 and 2015.

Member of Parliament makes a mistake in Minister question

Morten Messerschmidt. The chairman of the Danish People's Party's group in the EU Parliament, Anders Vistisen, is prepared to repay EU funds if the money has been improperly used to hold the Danish People's Party's summer group meetings in Denmark in 2014 and 2015.

The Minister of Transport to investigate Femern A/S’ oral agreements

The process operator training is one of the vocational training courses that have been starved since 2015. Andreas Madsen (th) is a process operator trainee at FLC and studying at the vocational school CELF.

New analysis: Politicians favor SOSU over technical vocational training

The preparation of the future train operation over the Fehmarn Belt must start as soon as possible, according to Region Zealand's consultation response to the Traffic Plan 2023. Here, however, it is the museum line between Maribo and Bandholm, regional council chairman Heino Knudsen waves to leave.

Region Zealand wants the Fehmarn railway on the agenda

Kasper Roug (MF, Socialdemokratiet) has no doubt that the element factory will remain in Rødbyhavn - also after the Fehmarntunnel is scheduled to be completed in 2029.

Danish MP: The element factory will stay in Rødbyhavn

The Danish government still does not internally agree on a possible Kattegat connection.

Danish government remains undecided about the Kattegat connection

The managing director of SMVDanmark is far from impressed by the new finance law.

SMVDanmark: Disappointing that vocational training is ignored in the Finance Act

Former Danish Prime Minister, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (S) is an apprentice ambassador for the Fehmarn project. Here he is together with process operator apprentice Andreas Madsen, who earlier this year won the DM in Skills. But the current prime minister and the rest of the government have not accommodated vocational training in this year's Finance Act, and that disappoints 3F.

3F misses vocational training in the Finance Act

Mogens Therkelsen regrets that the Danish-German Traffic Commission has not implemented anything in its 12 years. There have been lots of good proposals, but the governments in Copenhagen and Berlin are acting far too slowly, he believes.

Harsh criticism of the Danish-German Transport Commission: Has done nothing for 12 years

Structural engineers will be needed in large numbers once the casting work with the tunnel elements for the Fehmarntunnel gets underway in earnest later this year. But there are not many who choose the education, and this can become a problem.

Vocational education for structural engineer training in free fall

Banedanmark's management themselves must initially make ends meet within the framework they have been made available politically - even though the board has 46 unfilled engineering positions.

Banedanmark has to go to the track themselves to solve the personnel problem

Danish Industry welcomes new rules for foreign workers

Easier access to foreign labor welcomed by DI

The German railway network is in bad shape. An internal report says that more than 80 billion Euro must be invested in the infrastructure.

German railway network in miserable condition

Border control at Rødbyhavn in 2020. Archive photo: Jan Knudsen

The Fehmarn tunnel is being prepared for border control

Lolland-Falster Airport at Holeby remains in joint municipal hands - and does not get the status of an AFIS airport.

Property developer’s airport offer got rejected

Lolland-Falster Airport ligger bare ti kilometer fra Femernbyggeriet.

Lolland-Falster Airport must dampen ambitions

Stig Rømer Winther is happy that Roskilde Municipality is now also a member of Fehmarn Belt Development.

Roskilde joins the Femern Belt Development

Kiel, the capital of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, is now a full member of the STRING collaboration.

Kiel joins the STRING region

The Swedish Snälltåget's luxurious night train between Stockholm and Berlin can look forward to EU support.

EU support for cross-border railway lines

If it says Helsingør and Helsingborg, then it is between the two cities that an additional Ørsesund connection must go between.

Elsinore and Helsingborg also wants a fixed connection

Den tidligere formand for EU-parlamentet var på besøg på Femern-byggeriet og skulle selvfølgelig have øjeblikket foreviget.

Concerns about the price to use Fehmarn Tunnel

Minister of Transport and Business for Schleswig-Holstein, Claus Ruhe Madsen, visiting the construction site in Rødby.

Claus Ruhe Madsen wants a boost in the hinterland work

A new Interreg project will create innovation on both sides of the Fehmarn Belt. Among other things, the experiences from the underwater activities surrounding the tunnel construction must provide inspiration for new business ideas.

The Fehmarn Belt will be an hub for innovation

Nordisk Råd would like more cooperation in the field of transport.

Nordic transport cooperation moves one step closer

Schleswig-Holstein's Minister of Transport and Business, Claus Ruhe Madsen, has hired a construction coordinator to ensure better communication about the many construction and construction projects.

Schleswig-Holstein is hiring a construction coordinator

Groundwater reserves on Lolland are under such pressure that continued production at the element factory after the Fehmarn tunnel must be done with grey water.

End of tap water for the element factory after the tunnel project

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