The Generalitat de Cataluña, Catalonia's regional government, through the publicly owned company Ifercat, has awarded a 30-year public-works concession contract to FCC in a joint venture with other companies. The contract is for the construction, upkeep, maintenance and operation of miscellaneous infrastructure on section I of line 9 in Barcelona's underground system, for 1,041 million euro. The work that still remains to be done accounts for 630 million euro of that total sum.

The section includes 13 stations, running from El Prat Airport to Amadeu Torner. The work will consist in finishing the stations and handling the architecture and physical plant. Transverse components, such as stairways, escalators, platform doors and turnstiles, are not included.

The work done so far will be paid by the government. The contract does not involve any changes in the system's ownership.

At present 22.9 of the 47.8 kilometres of line 9 have been built, and 75% of the stations are being built. Line 9 will be fully operational sometime between 2013 and 2014.