Vistula Spit ditch to cost over PLN 1bn more than previously assumed
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Value of the work on the Vistula Spit ditch project is to amount to almost PLN 2 billion, not PLN 880 million as previously assumed. This increase is the result of, among others, an increase in the prices of materials and construction works and an increase in the scope of works, as results from the justification to the draft amendment to the resolution of the Council of Ministers on this matter. The government is to change the resolution by the end of this year.
According to GUS estimates, prices of materials and construction works in the market increased by approximately 26 percent compared to 2015, and a change in the scope of work resulting from, inter alia, adopted design solutions that were not available at the stage of drafting.
Ultimately, the new waterway between the Bay of Gdańsk and the Vistula Lagoon is to allow vessels up to 100 meters long and 20 meters wide to enter the harbor in Elbląg. The construction of the canal on the Vistula Spit is to be completed in 2022. The investor is the Maritime Office in Gdynia.
Construction works have been underway for almost a year at the site of the planned shipping canal on the Spit. There are, among others, wharves, excavations are carried out, an artificial island is being built.
