In 2009 (http://siskom.waw.pl/kp-metro-2.htm) a consortium of three companies (later known as AGP Metro) won the tender to build the central stage of the Warsaw Metro underground transportation system. An important element of the whole project was the removal from underground of the earth where the tunnel would run and the lowering underground of the concrete elements which would form the tunnel within which the trains would run. AGP Metro needed a reliable and sturdy gantry crane capable of working 24/7 to complete this demanding task. FUD SA was the successful bidder in the tender process and supplied 2 gantry cranes with a lifting capacity of 30t

The first stage of the central phase of the metro was successfully completed in 2015 after 5 years of continuous operations 24/7 and the cranes were put into storage.

When the next phase of the Warsaw metro project was announced AGP Metro were again the winning consortium and following a new tender process which was won by FUD SA, the planning started to commence the tunneling of the next phase which takes the Warsaw metro from C15 Dworzec Wileński to C18 Trocka. FUD’s role was to re-assemble the cranes which had been put into storage and recommission them in time to start drilling on the 10th May 2017. Working closely with AGP Metro’s engineers, FUD’s service team re-sited to C18 Trocka and reassembled the cranes, prepared them for the UDT inspection and assisted at the UDT inspection which took place on the 9th of May 2017.

Within minutes (!) of passing the UDT inspection, the first of the FUD 30-ton gantry cranes was busy offloading the first of the tunnel casings which had been delivered by road, while below ground the first of the 2 tunnel drilling machines (Maria) went into action and started breaking through a concrete retention wall and passing it’s drilled earth by conveyor to the cranes for lifting up to ground level.

AGP Metro work to a tight schedule which requires planning, discipline, regular planned maintenance of drills and cranes and the complete reliance on the serviceability of all the equipment. 

Although the drilling is done underground, FUD’s cranes which are at ground level are a proud example of FUD’s products supporting that non-stop drilling process. 

FUD SA is proud to be partnering AGP Metro in the modernisation of Warsaw.