German company wins tender for container port in Szczecin

The winner of the tender was German Josef Moebius Bau. According to the schedule, construction of the infrastructure should be concluded in the second half of 2007 and most of the funds designated for the investment will be obtained from the European Union. According to the local authorities, this project will positively contribute to improving the economic attractiveness of the region. "We are observing increased interest from ship owners with container transport. It is rather cheap and efficient and due to this there is now a need to construct infrastructure for the container depot," said Wojciech Sobecki, spokesman of the port's management board. Once the infrastructure is ready the management will look for companies to construct the depot itself. The modern container terminal will have a capacity of 80,000 containers per annum. (Puls Biznesu, p. 7) M.M.