VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian construction group Strabag SE (>> Strabag SE) is reviewing whether to buy parts of collapsed Dutch engineering services firm Royal Imtech (>> Royal Imtech), Strabag said on Tuesday.

The sale of Imtech's German unit started on Tuesday, with insolvency administrator Peter-Alexander Borchardt saying he had already received more than 40 expressions of interest.

A spokeswoman said Strabag had established contact with insolvency administrators and would check whether taking over parts of the business would make sense. "From today's perspective it will probably be a matter only of taking over staff if the review is positive," she said in an email.

German daily Handelsblatt earlier reported Austrian firms Strabag and Porr (>> Porr AG) as well as France's Vinci (>> Vinci) had contacted Borchardt to express their interest.

Vinci and Porr were not immediately available for comment.

(Reporting by Angelika Gruber; Additional reporting by Alexandre Boksenbaum-Granier in Paris; Writing by Michael Shields; Editing by Maria Sheahan)

Stocks treated in this article : Vinci, Strabag SE, Porr AG, Royal Imtech