The Czech contractor Metrostav is strengthening its international activities. Due to what it perceives as a slowing of its home market, it is shifting its focus on Poland and Scandinavia. Václav Soukup, the director for foreign business, told Hospodářské noviny that the company signed a contract to build a 3 km section of the Helsinki metro in an order worth CZK 500m and it won a contract for street repair in Warsaw worth CZK 1bn. It is also working on a motorway to Gdansk, which should bring in CZK 9bn. Soukup told the daily that he expects a slowdown in the Czech construction sector, mainly due to a delay in motorway construction, as the EU demands new EIA to be done on the projects.
