With a price-tag around €7.4bn ($8.1bn; £6.3bn) the scheme has mostly been financed by Denmark, with €1.3bn from the European Commission.

*financed by the tax payers.

"One such environmental group, Nabu (The Nature And Biodiversity Conservation Union), argued that this area of the Baltic is an important habitat for larvae and harbour porpoises, which are sensitive to underwater noise.

However in 2020 their legal challenge was dismissed by a federal court in Germany, which green-lighted construction to go ahead."

Nabu: this is bad for the harbour porpoise. Count: we don’t care it will be build anyways.

Good to see it’s on schedule.

Though I do wonder whether an alternative route, from Gedser to Rostock, would have been better, bypassing Hamburg and going directly to Berlin and central Europe. The current route has a bit of a Cold War vibe, staying firmly west of the former Iron Curtain, at the cost of longer journeys to points further east.