Kier Group's consortium preferred bidder for Mersey Gateway

25th Jun 2013 07:54

Kier Group's consortium has been chosen as a preferred bidder for construction of the UK's Mersey Gateway, a scheme to build a new six-lane toll bridge.The Merseylink consortium, which includes Kier, Samsung C&T and FCCConstrucción, wants to win the contract to construct the bridge over the Mersey between the UK towns of Runcorn and Widnes to relieve the congested and ageing Silver Jubilee Brigge. The new bridge will span 2.13 kilometres (km), including a 1.0km cable-stayed section. The project also comprises a 6.0km highways upgrade, eight interchanges and 12 new bridges.The Merseylink consortium's equity partners are Macquarie Capital Group, Bilfinger Project Investments Europe and FCC Construcción. Kier's shares were up 0.70% to 1,152p at 08:14 on Tuesday.RD