Port of Gdansk redevelopment

Mott MacDonald will design the new deep water quay adjacent to the existing deep water quay and it will allow for an additional throughput of 3m teu per year.

The design will include the deepening of the existing harbour basin, new buildings and redevelopment of existing buildings, new utility facilities such as electrical substations and a main substation building, as well as underground utilities installations. It will also allow for new container stacking yards which will operationally link with existing facilities

Marian Kurlanda, Mott MacDonald’s project director, said: “DCT Gdańsk is Poland’s largest and fastest growing container facility and is the only deepwater terminal in the Baltic Sea region which receives direct ocean vessel calls from the Far East. Our appointment to this prestigious project builds on our current involvement in major international port projects in Taiwan, South Africa, Canada and the United Kingdom.”

Once complete the new quay will serve the world’s largest container vessels. The quay is due to be completed by the end of 2016.

Mott Macdonald has been involved in a number of high profile projects in the past including the design for the £36m sea defence scheme for the Essex coast aimed at protecting over 3,000 homes for the next 100 years.

Back in 2010 Mott MacDonald was by the Rijkswaterstaat in The Netherlands to provide technical and spatial management for two ‘Room for the River’ projects on the Rhine river basin.

The group is managing all technical studies and is in charge of stakeholder engagement. Both projects are part of the Room for the River programme which was developed by the Dutch Government to face the challenge of increasing rates of water flow created by climate changes. It is hoped that by 2015, the programme will help protect the lives and homes of the four million riverside inhabitants.