Contractor Porr positive on growth for 2025 amid record orders

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In its half-year report for 2025, Porr said its order book had grown 10% to €9.4 billion. Its revenue increased 1.8% to just under €3 billion for the period, while earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) increased 3.6% to €153.4 million.

The company said it expected to see “moderate growth” in revenue for the rest of 2025, as well as an EBIT margin of 2.8% to 3%.

The contractor has benefited from a series of large infrastructure contracts across Europe, as well as new work in industrial projects, healthcare, and residential construction.

Among the projects it secured over the period were several new railway construction contracts, including the 32.6 km Craiova – Caransebeș railway line in Romania with a contract value of around €425 million, and Poland’s longest railway tunnel, the high-speed tunnel in Łódź, worth around €400 million.

In the healthcare sector, projects include the mother-child ward of a hospital in Poland, a production facility for a pharmaceutical company in Germany, and the MIA health centre Liesing in Austria.

Civil engineering work accounts for 60.6% of Porr’s order backlog and remains the industry’s growth drive, the contractor said.

CEO Karl-Heinz Strauss said, “At the mid-year point, we see a robust global economy, even if growth is not equally strong on every market. The European construction industry is showing growth trends in future-focused areas like data centres and the infrastructure needed for the energy transition – and naturally in the further expansion of transport networks.”