Polish port gets shipping channel

As part of a contract awarded by the Maritime Office in Gdynia, BESIX and NDI, operating as joint venture BESIX – NDI GROUP, will build a shipping channel through the Vistula Spit peninsula, in Poland to boost operations at the Port of Elblag. The project includes breakwaters, quays, a channel, lock infrastructure with rotating bridges and sluice gates, buildings and roads, as well as an artificial island. The Vistula Spit is a peninsular stretch of land, separating the Vistula Lagoon from the Gdańsk Bay.

Małgorzata Winiarek-Gajewska, CEO of NDI, stated: “This is a very interesting project and its construction will be another hydroengineering undertaking that NDI will be completing in cooperation with BESIX.

“We have already built together the DCT2 container terminal at the Port of Gdansk and our cooperation was very good. We will be happy to transfer our experience to this project on the Vistula Spit.”

New infrastructure will be designed by engineering consultants Mosty Gdańsk and Projmors.

Financed by the Republic of Poland, the project contract is worth €187m.

Works are expected to start in 2019 and be completed in 2022.