APM Terminals/Enna Logic consortium bids for Zagreb Deep Sea container terminal concession in Rijeka port

Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) May 12, 2021 - The Port Authority of Rijeka has reported that a consortium of Dutch APM Terminals and the local Enna Logic has submitted a bid to operate the Zagreb Deep Sea container terminal in the port. The consortium is guaranteeing a container turnover of 500,000 TEU annually over the next eight years. The concession is for a 50-year period and has a fixed concession fee is €2 million annually. The consortium will build the necessary infrastructure of the Zagreb Deep Sea container terminal in Phase 1 and Phase 2 (construction of 280 meters of a new pier and equipping it). It will operate and manage the terminal. Sea, Transport and Infrastructure Minister Oleg Butković said, "We now expect the concessionaire to put the new terminal into operation as soon as possible, whereby Rijeka, together with the full capacity of the Brajdica container terminal, which last year generated a historic result of over 300,000 TEU, will have a bigger container turnover in a few years than the Slovenian port Koper". The Zagreb Deep Sea container terminal project is part of the Rijeka Gateway Project, designed to develop and update the port's facilities and capacity so that it can be competitive regionally. Planned is a straight pier with a final length of 680 m and an average width of 300 m. The planned depth of the sea at the pier is at least 20 m and allows for the reception of container ships of all sizes. The terminal is built in two phases, with the first phase involving the construction of a 400 m long pier and the second phase the construction of an additional 280 m. At the end of both phases, the Port of Rijeka will boast a pier with a total length of 680 m. The construction of the first phase of the pier is in its final stage, and parallel to the construction of the pier the railway interface of the terminal will be reconstructed and the connecting road D-403 will be built. The continuation of construction of the remaining terminal phases is the obligation of the future concessionaire. The Zagreb Deep Sea Container Terminal (ZDSCT) will cover a total surface area of approximately 20 hectares (680 m long and 300 m wide). Part of the area is occupied by the existing working areas of the port (piers, roads, tracks, warehouses, installations, energy facilities, facilities for employees, etc.), with a total area of approximately 10.3 ha. The second part of the terminal area of approximately 7.2 ha is obtained by building the new pier and backfilling the sea. With the construction of the new pier in full length, a 680 m long and 20 m deep wharf can be obtained, with the possibility of mooring container vessels of more than 165,000 DWT and of lengths over 366 m (last generation ships with a capacity of more than 14,000 TEU). Additionally, the pier length of 680 m allows simultaneous mooring of a smaller ship up to 50,000 DWT and up to 250 m in length (vessels with a capacity up to 4 000 TEU). The container terminal will be connected to the new state road D-403 linking the Port of Rijeka, namely the Zagreb Deep Sea Container Terminal, to the Škurinje junction, currently under construction. This way, the Zagreb Deep Sea Container Terminal will be connected to the network of Croatian motorways i.e. the main TEN-T corridor network. The length of the road D403 from the Port of Rijeka to the Škurinje junction on the Rijeka bypass is approximately 3 km with a branch for connection to the network of city roads. On May 23, 2019, a ceremony was held at the new container terminal in port of Rijeka celebrating completion of construction works on the Zagreb Deep Sea Container Terminal. Completion of the works at the new container terminal marks the end of the comprehensive project of modernization of Rijeka’s traffic direction, known as Rijeka Gateway project. At the same time, European Project “Upgrade of the Rijeka Port infrastructure – Zagreb Deep Sea Container Terminal (POR2CORE-ZCT)” is to contribute to the development of the Port of Rijeka as one of the core ports in the Mediterranean through ensuring the efficiency, sustainability and multimodality of freight transport. The project was applied to the second call of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Traffic 2015, Cohesion envelope. Grant Agreement no. INEA/CEF/TRAN/M2015/1138367 was signed on 18 November 2016 between the Innovation and Networks Executive Agency and the Port of Rijeka Authority, thus ensuring 85% of co-financing from the European funds. The total value of the project is €31.6 million ($38.4 million). The new terminal will be addition to the Brajdica container terminal, operated by Adriatic Gate Container Terminal (AGCT - Jadranska Vrata) which is part of ICTSI and handled over 300,000 TEU in 2020. Local sources have reported that a previously tender for the project, since cancelled, has attracted interest from Chinese companies, a development that would not have been welcomed in neither Brussels nor Washington. APM Terminals, part of A.P. Moeller, is an international container terminal operating company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands. It is one of the world's largest port and terminal operators as well as providing cargo support and container inland services. Enna Logic is part of the local PPD. 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APM Terminals/Enna Logic consortium bids for Zagreb Deep Sea container terminal concession in Rijeka port

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