Motorways: Europe
In 2006, abertis acquired the French concessions company sanef (Société des Autoroutes du Nord et de l’Est de la France), after the French government awarded the privatisation contract to Holding d’Infrastructures de Transport (HIT), led by abertis with a 52.5% stake, and with fellow shareholders as Caisse de Dépôts, the insurance group AXA, the French investment fund Predica, and FFP, a company controlled by the Peugeot family.
The acquisition of sanef by the abertis group has meant an increase in the motorways managed by abertis by some 1,743 km of toll roads in northern France, a densely populated area with a highly dynamic economy. sanef manages four of the seven access lanes for each motorway in the north of France, an area of great economic dynamism and with a high population density. sanef manages four of the seven motorway access routes to the Ile de France (the Paris region) and also the traffic connecting Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg with the north of France and the United Kingdom.
abertis also boasts a strategic presence in Europe’s top motorway operators, such as Italy’s Atlantia and Portugal’s Brisa, in which it has a 6.7% and 14,58% stake, respectively.
In the UK, it has presence with a 25% stake in operator RMG, holder of the concessions over the A1-M (21 km) and the A419/417 (52 km).
» Related contents:
abertis group motorways presentation (2006) (pdf, 1,41 MB)
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