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The ACCIONA Windpowered Antarctica Expedition successfully completes its polar crossing
Date: 01/16/2012The ACCIONA team ends its 3,500km crossing of the South Pole using only a wind-drawn sled.
The expedition members took a number of ice and air samples to scientifically determine the effects of climate change.
ACCIONA awarded the Almanzora highway project, worth 104m euros
A construction and 30-year management contract for the second highway in Andalusia's Regional Roads Plan.
The ACCIONA Windpowered Antarctica expedition has reached the Geographic South Pole
Date: 01/02/2012The team of scientists and explorers led by Ramón Larramendi has reached 90 degrees south latitude and 0 degrees longitude aboard a sled powered 100% by wind.
ACCIONA Agua is awarded the extension works on the Copiapó desalination plant, in Chile
Date: 12/13/2011The Company will develop solutions for transporting iron concentrate, conducting water through a steel pipeline and pumping in series from the desalination plant.
ACCIONA launches the first-ever zero-emissions, wind-powered expedition to the South Pole
Date: 11/30/2011On the centenary of the arrival of Amundsen and Scott at South Pole, ACCIONA is launching an expedition to Antarctica which, for the first time ever, will demonstrate the efficiency of an eco-efficient vehicle as a means of transport and for taking supplies to the Polar Regions.
The project aims to lay down the logistics and scientific foundations for developing stable research programs in the Polar Regions and sets out, in particular, to study the effects of climate change.
ACCIONA net profit triples to 314 million euros
Date: 11/11/2011Revenues grew 5% to 4,796 million euros.
EBITDA increased 15%, to 934 million euros.
ACCIONA combines innovation and competitiveness in the design of the world’s first zero-emissions ocean-going racing yacht
Date: 10/26/2011The Company presented the ACCIONA 100% Ecopowered, the world's first IMOCA 60 racing yacht with renewable energy-powered navigation, communications systems, hydraulics and engines.
ACCIONA and FCC to build new container terminal in Cadiz (Spain)
Date: 09/28/2011Cadiz Bay Port Authority has awarded the 91 million euro contract to a 50-50 joint venture between the two companies.
This first phase of the project will be built on 22 hectares.
ACCIONA rewards best project management practices
Date: 09/26/2011ACCIONA Infraestructuras delivered its annual Project Management Awards which recognise excellence in different areas of project management such as quality, the environment, occupational risk prevention, technology, etc. The awards include Best Prevention Management, Best Quality and Environmental Management, Best R&D Technology Implementation, Best Innovative Action and Best Project Management, the latter of which is the main award that draws from all of the other categories.
Adif and ACCIONA to work together on railway projects in Colombia
Date: 09/12/2011Adif will provide technical support for ACCIONA's participation in tenders for new rail corridors, as well as for the carrying out of improvements and rehabilitation work on existing lines, as part of the Colombian government's ambitious plans to modernize the country's rail network.
The collaboration agreement reasserts Adif's commitment to the international expansion of Spanish companies.
·ACCIONA and Adif join their technical and technological capacity to contribute to Spain's consolidation as a global power in railway technology.
