Liepaja Port to build two container terminals

Main contractor Bouygues Travaux Public awarded the contract to the company, which will start work on the construction of the concrete tunnel units this summer at a dry dock in Wallsend in Newcastle upon Tyne.Currently Liepaja Port does not have a terminal suitable for handling containerised cargo. This being the case, only 7,600 containers were handled at Liepaja Port last year. According to the plan, the new container terminals will start operations in 2017, and will have the capacity to handle 390,000 containers a year.