Paris-Rhine-Rhone highways

The company of the Autoroutes the Paris-Rhine-Rhone ( APRR ) is a French company in charge of the exploitation of a highway network of which it is concession naire and of which it financed construction. Since February 20th, 2006, the APRR belongs to the consortium Effarie (compound of Eiffage and of).

APRR is the n°2 sector of the concessions of Autoroute S in France.

Legal status

Part of the capital is put in purse at the end of the year 2004, however the State remained majority.

December 14th, 2005, the French government announced its intention to yield the totality of its actions in group APRR to a consortium made up of Eiffage and Macquarie, an Australian company . This transfer became effective on February 20th, 2006.

Some figures

(for 2003, group)

Turnover: 1474,4 million euros (coming to 97% from the Toll S, the balance, of royalties of commercial installations and the hiring of a network of fiberoptics)
Bottom line (share of the group): 628,2 million euros
Gross margin of self-financing: 485,4 million euros
Investments: 182 million Stockholders' equity euros
: 33,9 million euros
financial Debt: 6.668 million euros
Effective: 4500 paid
Length of the conceded network: 2270 km (more than 1.800 km of turnpikes)
accommodated Vehicles: 220 million
Shareholding (2006): Floating 18.52%, Effarie (Eiffage and the Macquarie group) 81.48%.
57 contracts of occupation of the public domain (in 2007, which will expire at the end of 2010), with exploitation of 41 srtations services (including for some of the dressers), with 10 restaurants, 2 hotels, 2 houses of regional products, as well as a host and a service station managed by contract until 2011.

The network of APRR and AREA

The group manages 2.260 km of conceded network, that is to say 28% of the French network, APRR being in load of the axis Paris - Lyon and AREA (Company of the Rhone-Alps Highways), subsidiary company with 99,82%, of the transalpine highways. The whole of the concession lasts until in 2032.

Approximately 1865 km length, the network exploited by APRR extends on a vast triangle in center-is France. It connects the Paris region, Champagne-Ardenne, the Lorraine and the Alsace with the area the Rhone-Alps. Its center of gravity is in Burgundy, around Beaune where are rencontreent the highways A6, A5, A31, A36 and A39. Is added to it a section of the highway A71 between Bourges and Clermont-Ferrand in Auvergne and the portion of the highway A77 between A6 and the Cosne-Course-on-Loire.

AREA exploits the highways A43, A432, A430, Northern and Southern A41, A410, A48, A49 and A51 for an office plurality of 384 km highways. The extension of A51 (10,5 km of layout) will be brought into service at spring 2007. Consortium ADELAC will prolong a41 highway of approximately 20 km between Annecy and Geneva in one record duration 38 month old. 4 new viaducts, 1 3 km tunnel (Sion Mount) long are envisaged. The startup of this new layout is programmed at the beginning of 2009.

History

The company was born in 1961 with creation from SAPL, company of the Paris-Lyon highway. The complete connection between Paris and Lyon (401 km) is brought into service in 1971.

Into 1975, the company is transformed into SAPRR, company of the Paris-Rhine-Rhone highways.

In 1995, a “plan contract” is signed with the State over the period 1995 - 1999.

In 2006, APRR is sold with Eiffage.

See too

Highway | Concessionary companies of highways in France

External bond

APRR, official site
detailed Card of APRR on WikiSara

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