The first modernization works at the Indyjskie Quay in the Port of Gdynia will start soon. On Wednesday, December 21, at the headquarters of the Port of Gdynia Authority, a contract for the implementation of the task was officially signed. Its contractor will be the NDI company, known for its various hydrotechnical projects in ports.

The more than 500-meter-long Indyjskie Quay, where the Port of Gdynia carries out, among others, transhipments of grain, will gain a new face. During the 22 months of the contract, the quay is to be completely modernized and widened, and the basin itself will be deepened to 15.5 meters, which will allow it to accommodate larger ships. The value of the contract concluded between the Port of Gdynia Authority and the NDI Group amounts to nearly PLN 135 million.

– This agreement is extremely important to us, because we all know that the Port of Gdynia is famous for transshipments of grain. It is reloaded in the Indyjskie Quay, and such a new, deep-water quay gives us full confidence that we will continue to be the leader when it comes to these goods - comments Jacek Sadaj, President of the Port of Gdynia Authority SA.

The contractor, NDI Group, is well known for the implementation of hydrotechnical projects, not only in in the ports of Gdańsk and Szczecin. Recently, the biggest task undertaken by the company was the execution of a waterway through the Vistula Spit. In Gdynia, the company built storage yards and is also modernizing the Dutch Quay.

– We feel good here, we feel looked after by the investor, we feel welcome. We are glad that we are here on another contract - says Małgorzata Winiarek-Gajewska, president of NDI. – We will rebuild and expand this quay, in fact renovate it to the so-called today's standards and the current needs of the port. We will also deepen the port canal. This is to raise the standard of functioning of this quay, as well as to create new possibilities for accepting sea transport. We are starting work almost immediately and we hope that there will be no surprises.

All works on the Indian Quay have been planned in such a way that the companies using the pier can continue their operations.

– This requires some flexibility from the contractor, so that those who operate on land, on the pier, can simply still earn money. So we have to somehow combine these two elements – says Kazimierz Koralewski, Vice-President of the Port of Gdynia. – We are aware that today grain is a key cargo for Poland. At the same time, we know that without deepening this basin, we will not be able to increase the transhipment rate, we will not increase the transshipment potential at the port of Gdynia.

Kazimierz Koralewski also added that the modernization of the quay is associated with the modernization of transshipment technology and the increase in storage space. All this is to make imported cargo, such as fodder, faster to be unloaded from larger ships and shipped inland, and Polish grain to be transported more efficiently to the port and loaded on a ship for export purposes.

In turn, Vice-President of the Port of Gdynia Authority and Finance Director Maciej Bąk stated that this is an investment that will pay off quickly.

– I like to spend money in this way, because these are investments that will undoubtedly come back to us in the form of revenues in the years to come. This is another profit center that we are modernizing to bring even greater returns than before – says Bąk.