Group skills to serve Maryland to rebuild Baltimore Bridge collapsed last March

Milan, July 12, 2024 – "webuild what America needs" campaign keeps making the news, relaunched by the main US media headlines in all the nation. Following The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and CNN and the interview of Webuild CEO Pietro Salini given to The Baltimore Sun, now The New York Times has also relaunched the Group's commitment in the United States, and Webuild's global leadership in the infrastructure sector, as already done during the week by AP, Bloomberg, ESPN, Fox News, MSN BC, Reuters, and USA Today. 

Just as the Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) is reviewing the proposals it received, the campaign highlights the Group's historical experience in the United States, where it works through its subsidiary Lane, a company that goes back as far as 1890.  The campaign takes off from the iconic Long Beach International Gateway Bridge in California, which the Group delivered in 2020, and that was built without ever interrupting port activities.

Webuild, having already built 1,020 km of bridges and viaducts globally, is now ready to put this very experience to serve the US authorities, also for rebuilding the new Baltimore Bridge, after it collapsed last March. In May, Webuild and Lane already presented to the Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA), pro-bono, as a sign of closeness to the Country, a concept-design, to build the new safe and innovative bridge that will redefine how ships enter the historical port of Baltimore, a logistic hub so significant for the United States. 

The United States are a key market for Webuild, with North America overall representing the third most important market, and the United States generating a 12% total turnover for the Group. Lane and partner companies of the supply chain, in the last 10 years, successfully delivered infrastructure works for a total contract value worth over 12.8 billion dollars.

Webuild is present in over 50 countries and has built iconic projects with the most cutting-edge technologies in safety and sustainability terms, greatly raising the industry's standards. Among these, the Second and Third Bosphorus Bridges and the Danube Bridge in Braila, Romania, the second longest suspension bridge in Continental Europe. In the US, besides building the Long Beach International Gateway Bridge, ensuring full operations of the port and of the old bridge (which was demolished immediately after inaugurating the new one), also built the "A.  Max Brewer Bridge” in Florida.