The shipping channel through the Vistula Spit is finally to become “useful”. There is a new tender

There is a new tender regarding the deepening of the last section of the waterway to the port of Elbląg – said Deputy Minister of Infrastructure Arkadiusz Marchewka on Friday. He assured that as a result of these works, the shipping channel through the Vistula Spit would be “finally useful”.

“I want to inform you that yesterday a new tender was sent to the publication regarding the deepening of the last section of the waterway to the port in Elbląg. The previous one was not annulled because someone came up with the idea of ​​giving up this investment, only by the fact that the submitted offers did not They met budget assumptions and it was necessary to change these assumptions.

He added that “thanks to our activities, a dig, which was spent nearly PLN 2 billion and through which the recreational sailboats flowed today, will finally become useful.”

The deputy minister pointed out that “by good cooperation with the Elbląg self -government, the last 900 m of the river will be deepened and freight vessels up to 100 m long will come to the port of Elbląg.” “Our predecessors couldn't do it,” he added.

The Maritime Office in Gdynia, i.e. the investor, reported that the tender for the documentation of the documentation before deepening the last section of the water track to the port of Elbląg was annulled because there were doubts as to how to estimate the task; In addition, the advertisement was placed in the wrong publisher.

The subject of the order is to develop project documentation for works that consist in the construction of the water track on the Elbląg River. The track is to be 36 m wide and 5 m deep at the sections from point P1 (located at the height of the sewage treatment plant) to point P2 (at the fork of the Jagiellonian river and the Jagiellonian Canal) and from point P2 to the Port point (located at the height of the European Union bridge).

The shore strengthens will also be made and a turntable with a diameter of 160 m at the fork of the Elbląg River and the Jagiellonian Canal will be built.

The planned deepening of the water track on the Elbląg River is the last section of the waterway through the Vistula Spit, which was made by the government.

As previously informed by the Maritime Office in Gdynia, in January last year, the Ministry of Infrastructure ordered the office director to prepare project documentation, navigation analysis and technical expertise. The idea is to determine the necessary investments that allow you to finish the water track and use the infrastructure of the port in Elbląg – the investor explained at the time.

The Maritime Office in Gdynia added that from January 2024 work has been carried out on the deepening of the Elbląg River, implemented as part of the 4th stage of the construction of a waterway connecting the Vistula Lagoon with the Gulf of Gdańsk. The contract includes the implementation of the next section of the water track with a depth of 5 m. On the section P1 (at the height of the sewage treatment plant) to P2 (at the fork of the river and the Jagiellonian Canal), the DNA tests and purification of the DNA from ferromagnetic obstacles (e.g. scrap metal, reinforced concrete elements were also carried out , bulky obstacles, historical military residues). The continuation of the work is partly scheduled for this year.

The total length of the waterway from the Gulf of Gdańsk through the Vistula Lagoon to Elbląg is almost 23 km, including the passing through the Vistula Lagoon is just over 10 km, on the Elbląg River – also over 10 km. The remaining approx. 2.5 km is a section, which will consist of a lock and an external port and a parking stand. The channel and the entire water track will ultimately be 5 m deep.

Work on the Vistula Spit began in October 2019. In September 2022, the shipping channel was opened through the Vistula Spit, after the first stage of the project “Construction of a waterway connecting the Vistula Lagoon with the Gdańsk Bay”.

The second stage of the investment includes the reconstruction of the existing water track, about 10.4 km long, on the Elbląg River in the field of the shores of the edges, which will ultimately take over the functions of earth flood embankments, construction of low marina, facilitating access to the river and the construction of a rotary bridge over the Elbląg River in Nowaków , with changes in the road system. Work under the second stage began in April 2021. The rotary bridge is to be opened in the coming days.

As part of the third stage, the construction of a water track on the Vistula Lagoon is carried out, at a length of about 8.2 km.

The total length of the planned waterway is almost 23 km. After completing the entire work, the sailing channel is to allow the Gulf of Gdańsk to the Vistula Lagoon to units up to 4.5 meters, up to 100 meters long and a width of up to 20 meters. The investment cost was estimated at PLN 2 billion.

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