“Deepening of the fairway and internal sea areas of the Port of Gdynia – stages 1 and 3 and the redevelopment of quays in the Port of Gdynia – stages 2 and 3”, No. 3.2-10.
Beneficiary:
Port of Gdynia Authority S.A.
Project submitted for co-financing by the European Union
The project consists of the two following tasks:
Task 1 “Deepening of the fairway and internal sea areas of the Port of Gdynia – stages 1 and 3”
The planned project will be implemented in three stages by two investors – Port of Gdynia Authority S.A. (Stages 1 and 3) and the Maritime Office in Gdynia (Stage 2, which is not described below).
– Stage 1: The reconstruction of turning basin No. 2 up to a diameter of 480 m in the Dock IX area, and the associated construction works resulting from the necessity of relocating the floating dock of the Naval Shipyard. To construct a new turning basin No. 2 it is necessary to demolish Pier No. III (Gościnne Quay) at a length of approx. 240 m and the head of Pier No. II at a length of approx. 25 m, on the premises of the Naval Shipyard. The floating dock will be relocated to the existing slip recess in the corner of the Southern II and Western Quays. Due to the characteristics of the existing structure and the designed dock through, it will be necessary to completely redevelop the existing recess, while preserving a similar conceptual layout of the structure. Furthermore, the dredging works up to the height of -13.50 m in the turning basin area, will be conducted.
– Stage 3: The performance of dredging works up to the height of -16.00 m in the port channel (increasing the depth by 2.5 m from the present -13.5 m). Furthermore, extension of the internal opening of the port on the Oksywska Groyne side (by approx. 20-50 m – in variants). Due to the extensive deepening of the Channel it will be necessary to reconstruct the adjoining quays, whose structures do not facilitate such a depth. Conducting the dredging work up to the height of -16.00 m might also require the transferring/securing of underwater cables and pipelines.
Task 2 “The redevelopment of quays in the Port of Gdynia – stages 2 and 3”
The planned project will include two stages:
– Stage 2 entails the redevelopment of the Indian Quay – the Redevelopment of the Indian Quay in the section up to 550 m from Norwegian Quay, with a maximum water outlet of up to 7.5 m and the technical depth of -15.5 m, to adapt the quay to service bigger ships.
– Stage 3 will concern the redevelopment of the Helskie Quay –the Redevelopment of the Helskie Quay at a length of 965 m, aimed at reaching a technical depth on the quay of up to -15.5 m and retrofitting the quay with container crane track with a gauge of 30 m.
Task 2, implemented in 2014-2020 under stages 2 and 3, will constitute the continuation of Stage 1 of this project, which includes the reconstruction of the Romanian Quay, and is being implemented in the 2007-2013 financial perspective.
The Maritime Office in Gdynia, as part of Task No. 1, will implement Stage 2 of the project, i.e. “Deepening of the fairway and internal sea areas of the Port of Gdynia”. Stage 2 – Deepening of the fairway”. At this stage, work will include the deepening of the port fairway, up to the heads of the breakwater, i.e. outside the area of the port of Gdynia. The fairway runs from GD buoys, G1-G2 buoys, to the main opening with a width of 150 m. The fairway depth is to equal -17.00 m, and its parameters will be adapted to service 58-metre-wide ships.
The deepening of the fairway is necessary to facilitate the entry of ships with a greater draught to the Port. The division of works under the investment task results from legal regulations, while the functional investment task is a single endeavour, which should be implemented in a coherent way, and in close cooperation of the involved entities.
The scope of the project includes:
1. The deepening of the fairway to the Port of Gdynia up to the height of 17.00 m (to the heads of the breakwater);
2. The extension of the fairway up to 280 m (along a length of 3734 m);
3. Securing the route of the optical fibre on the designed fairway width;
4. Securing/redeveloping the port opening, while preserving the width of the main opening at 150 m.
The primary purpose of deepening of the fairway and internal sea areas of the Port of Gdynia, and of redeveloping the quays is to facilitate calling at port to much larger ships, up to 400 m long, 58 m wide and a draught of up to 15 m (the current maximum draught is 13 m), as well improvement of navigational conditions and safety of hydro-engineering structures. Currently, such big vessels can only call at the external part of the Port of Gdynia, and only if unloaded, which translates into the offering and effectiveness of sea transport being less attractive. The planned deepening is also associated with the reconstruction of hydro-engineering structures of the selected quays, to facilitate the parameters of large ship calling and servicing parameters.
The project will contribute to increasing the transshipment levels in the terminals of the Port of Gdynia, and therefore to making the Port of Gdynia more competitive in the Baltic Sea area and the Baltic-Adriatic Corridor of the Transeuropean Transport Network TEN-T1. The Port of Gdynia sea container, ro-ro, and ferry connections with the European network of motorways, expressways and railway routes. The project will contribute to the achievement of the adopted specific objectives of the aforementioned task under the Operational Programme Infrastructure and Environment 2014-2020 by improving the navigational parameters of the port. This will make it possible for larger container and bulk ships to call and moor at the port and to service them. As a result of using larger ships, the cost of transport of a single container and one tonne of bulk cargo will decrease. This concerns, economic costs, which will improve the competitiveness of sea transport as the most eco-friendly form of transport, as well as environmental costs, by decreasing pollutant emissions and noise per unit of cargo. Project implementation is an activity which will contribute to improving the competitiveness of sea ports, improving sea safety and reducing environmental pollution.
“The project was included in the “Implementation document to the transport development strategy up to 2020” adopted by the Council of Ministers on 24 September 2014, on the list of sea projects, under numbers 14 and 21. The project entitled “Deepening of the fairway and internal sea areas of the Port of Gdynia – stages 1 and 3” was given number 14, while the project entitled “The redevelopment of quays in the Port of Gdynia – stages 2 and 3” was given number 21. The project was referred for financing from EU funds:
– Operational Programme Infrastructure and Environment 2014–2020,
– Priority Axis III “Development of the TEN-T road network and multimodal transport”,
– Measure 3.2. Development of maritime transport, inland waterways and multimodal connections,
– Thematic objective 7 “Promoting sustainable transport and removing bottlenecks in key network infrastructures”,
– Investment priority 7.ii “Developing and improving environmentally-friendly (including lownoise) and low-carbon transport systems, including inland waterways and maritime transport, ports, multimodal links and airport infrastructure in order to promote sustainable regional and local mobility”
The project consists of the two following tasks:
Task 1 “Deepening of the fairway and internal sea areas of the Port of Gdynia – stages 1 and 3”
The planned project will be implemented in three stages by two investors – Port of Gdynia Authority S.A. (Stages 1 and 3) and the Maritime Office in Gdynia (Stage 2, which is not described below).
– Stage 1: The reconstruction of turning basin No. 2 up to a diameter of 480 m in the Dock IX area, and the associated construction works resulting from the necessity of relocating the floating dock of the Naval Shipyard. To construct a new turning basin No. 2 it is necessary to demolish Pier No. III (Gościnne Quay) at a length of approx. 240 m and the head of Pier No. II at a length of approx. 25 m, on the premises of the Naval Shipyard. The floating dock will be relocated to the existing slip recess in the corner of the Southern II and Western Quays. Due to the characteristics of the existing structure and the designed dock through, it will be necessary to completely redevelop the existing recess, while preserving a similar conceptual layout of the structure. Furthermore, the dredging works up to the height of -13.50 m in the turning basin area, will be conducted.
– Stage 3: The performance of dredging works up to the height of -16.00 m in the port channel (increasing the depth by 2.5 m from the present -13.5 m). Furthermore, extension of the internal opening of the port on the Oksywska Groyne side (by approx. 20-50 m – in variants). Due to the extensive deepening of the Channel it will be necessary to reconstruct the adjoining quays, whose structures do not facilitate such a depth. Conducting the dredging work up to the height of -16.00 m might also require the transferring/securing of underwater cables and pipelines.
Task 2 “The redevelopment of quays in the Port of Gdynia – stages 2 and 3”
The planned project will include two stages:
– Stage 2 entails the redevelopment of the Indian Quay – the Redevelopment of the Indian Quay in the section up to 550 m from Norwegian Quay, with a maximum water outlet of up to 7.5 m and the technical depth of -15.5 m, to adapt the quay to service bigger ships.
– Stage 3 will concern the redevelopment of the Helskie Quay –the Redevelopment of the Helskie Quay at a length of 965 m, aimed at reaching a technical depth on the quay of up to -15.5 m and retrofitting the quay with container crane track with a gauge of 30 m.
Task 2, implemented in 2014-2020 under stages 2 and 3, will constitute the continuation of Stage 1 of this project, which includes the reconstruction of the Romanian Quay, and is being implemented in the 2007-2013 financial perspective.
The Maritime Office in Gdynia, as part of Task No. 1, will implement Stage 2 of the project, i.e. “Deepening of the fairway and internal sea areas of the Port of Gdynia”. Stage 2 – Deepening of the fairway”. At this stage, work will include the deepening of the port fairway, up to the heads of the breakwater, i.e. outside the area of the port of Gdynia. The fairway runs from GD buoys, G1-G2 buoys, to the main opening with a width of 150 m. The fairway depth is to equal -17.00 m, and its parameters will be adapted to service 58-metre-wide ships.
The deepening of the fairway is necessary to facilitate the entry of ships with a greater draught to the Port. The division of works under the investment task results from legal regulations, while the functional investment task is a single endeavour, which should be implemented in a coherent way, and in close cooperation of the involved entities.
The scope of the project includes:
1. The deepening of the fairway to the Port of Gdynia up to the height of 17.00 m (to the heads of the breakwater);
2. The extension of the fairway up to 280 m (along a length of 3734 m);
3. Securing the route of the optical fibre on the designed fairway width;
4. Securing/redeveloping the port opening, while preserving the width of the main opening at 150 m.
Task 1 “Deepening of the fairway and internal sea areas of the Port of Gdynia”
– Stages 1 and 3: – Years 2016-2020.
Task 2 “The redevelopment of quays in the Port of Gdynia”
Stages 2 and 3: – Years 2017-2020.
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