Big companies to bid for incinerator contract in Gdańsk

As many as five major European and Asian companies were picked by Gdańsk city hall for further consideration in the tender to construct the Port Czystej Energii incinerator, the Polish Press Agency (PAP) reported. The value of the project is to range between PLN 600 and PLN 700 million. The city hall said it would consider the offers from two French firms: Veolia Group and Suez Environnement (which is building an incinerator in Poznań), the Italian-French consortium of Astaldi, Termomeccanica and Tiru, German EEW, a German-South Korean consortium of Posco (which is building Poland's largest incinerator, in Kraków) and Remondis. The firms were chosen out of 13 entities from Poland, Spain, Austria, the UK and Italy.