Gdańsk Deepwater Container Terminal 2

Overview:

• Gdańsk Deepwater Container Terminal 2.
• The project involves the construction of the second terminal at Deepwater Container Terminal (DCT) Gdańsk.
• The new quay is 650m long and 17m deep and increases DCT’s annual handling capacity to 3 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit).
• The new terminal will allow the port to accommodate container vessels with a capacity exceeding 18,000 TEU.
• DCT is Poland's only deep sea terminal and the expansion makes the port the largest in the Baltic region.
• CH2M is providing contract engineer services on the project. Belgian construction firm BESIX won the concession to construct the new terminal.
• BNP Paribas Fortis, Bank BGŻ BNP Paribas, Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), mBank, Bank Pekao, PKO Bank Polski and PZU provided financing for the project.

Sam Duke - Editor