Five bids for Port Centralny tender

Eurobuild reported the bidders in the tender include ILF Consulting Engineers Polska as well as the consortia of Industria Project with Europrojekt Gdańsk; Sweco Consulting with Wuprohyd; Idom Inżynieria with Architektura i Doradztwo, Idom Consulting, Engineering, Architecture, SAU, and Arcadis; and Berenguer Ingenieros with Projmors Biuro Projektów Budownictwa Morskiego and Mosty Gdańsk.

“The opening of the bids and the selection of the contractor is a clear signal that we are determined and we want Port Centralny to be created,” said Łukasz Greinke, CEO of the Port of Gdańsk Authority, according to Eurobuild.

Several terminals

Port Centralny is the flagship project of the Port of Gdańsk Authority. Several terminals will be built on a 500ha site, including terminals for mass, groupage, passenger and roll-on/roll-off cargo.

The project will be carried out as a public-private partnership under which terminals will be built depending on the needs of private operators.

The winner of the tender will research the demand for cargo-passenger maritime transport domestically, in Europe and globally, to make industry forecasts up to 2050.

An inventory of existing infrastructure will be taken and the final concept must be completed in ten months.