MADRID: A consortium including Spanish construction firm OHL won a contract worth about 1.1 billion euros ($1.4 billion) to build two metro stations in Doha in Qatar, the company said Thursday.
The consortium, which also includes Samsung C&T and Qatar Building Company, will be responsible for designing and building two of the most emblematic stations of the metro, Msheireb and Education City, OHL said in a statement.
OHL is already present in Qatar, where it is building a medical and research centre in Sidra, a project with a budget of nearly $2 billion.
Gas-rich Qatar is spending tens of billions of dollars on infrastructure projects over the next few years as it prepares to host the World Cup in 2022 and bids to host the Olympics in 2020.
It plans a $40 billion national integrated rail network together with a new $11 billion airport and a $5.5 billion deep water seaport.
Spanish construction firms are increasingly bidding for contracts abroad as government austerity measures and the collapse of a property boom in Spain in 2008 has led to a shortage of work in their domestic market.
OHL is involved in other major construction projects in the Gulf region.
It is taking part in the construction of a viaduct in Kuwait and is part of the consortium that is building a high-speed rail link between Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia. (AFP)
