Three large engineering consortia apply for the contract for the CPK Master Plan

The procedure for the technical support consultant for the preparation of the CPK Masterplan is conducted in the form of a competitive dialog. Three large consortia have submitted tenders, which provide engineering and design services, manage and supervise airport construction in different parts of the world.

The Master Plan elements will be: detailed location of the airportandthe concept of staging its construction, which are to be prepared in parallel with environmental and field surveys.

The study will also include, i.a.:

• air traffic forecasts (taking into account the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the aviation market),
• capacity analyses of the planned airport infrastructure,
• operational strategy of the luggage and logistics system
• and advanced cost and specialist analyses.

CPK required the master planner candidates to be experienced in the preparation of similar documentation: for large hubs, for greenfield infrastructure projects (designed and built from scratch), and for airports supported by rail transport. The Company also verified the financial and economic capacities to perform a contract of such scale as the CPK.

ADP Ingénierie is a subsidiary of the ADP Group, which operates airports such as de Gaulle and Orly airports in Paris. The company operates in 20 countries and employs 420 experts in total. It was involved, i.a., in the construction of the Daxing airport in Beijing and the Incheon airport in Seoul. IDOM is a Spanish engineering group with more than 3.8 thousand people working in 45 offices in different parts of the world. This company prepared, i.a., the structural design of Terminal 2 for Heathrow in London. It participated in the development of a master plan for airports i.a. in Manila in the Philippines and Santa Lucia in Mexico.

NACO Netherlands Airport Consultants and Royal HaskoningDHV are consortium members from the Netherlands. Since the beginning of its operations, NACO has been involved in projects at more than 600 airports worldwide, i.a., in the construction of the Daxing airport in Beijing, which was opened last year, and prepared master plans, e.g. for the ports: in the capital city of Mexico and Phnom Penh in Cambodia. Since the 1950s, NACO has worked with Amsterdam-Schiphol airport, the third airport in Europe in terms of the number of passengers (72 million in 2019). Royal Haskoning DHV has its offices in 30 countries and employs more than 5.8 thousand specialists in total.

ILF consulting Engineers is a German-Austrian corporation which has participated in the CPK tender in a consortium with amd.sigma. The majority shareholder of the latter is Munich Airport (the only European hub airport awarded five stars in the Skytrax airport quality ranking). ILF is currently preparing an extension concept until 2035 for Terminal 1 of the Munich Airport. The company developed master plans for, i.a., Vienna airport in Austria, Zhengzhou airport in China and Quito airport in Ecuador. Over 50 years, ILF completed over 6 thousand projects in 150 countries. It employs 2.4 thousand people in more than 40 offices on five continents.

According to PAP, the first proceedings on a technical, economic and environmental study (STEŚ) for over half a thousand kilometers of high-speed railway lines are ready. Their launch is planned simultaneously with the opening of the new airport. It was added that an information notice was published in the EU's Official Journal on this matter.

Tenders are to be announced in November and December. According to PAP, specific dates depend on obtaining corporate approvals by the company under the ownership supervision by the Ministry of State Assets.

According to the plans, within 560 km of new railway lines, the tenders are to cover the sections:

• West Warsaw Stastion- CPK- Łódź (excluding the section in the area of ​​the CPK junction);
• Łódź – Wrocław; Żarów-Świdnica-Wałbrzych-border with the Czech Republic;
• Chybie – Jastrzębie Zdrój – Godów – border with the Czech Republic;
• Łętownia – Rzeszów; Ostrołęka – Łomża; Trawniki – Krasnystaw – Zamość,

as well as the CPK railway junction (in the area of ​​the CPK Airport).

The planned deadline for the technical, economic and environmental study for these sections is 10 to 12 months from the conclusion of the contract. Railway investments selected by the CPK for the inventory and study are planned for implementation before the end of 2027.

“The list of sections to be covered by the technical-economic-environmental study coincides with those for which the CPK company signed further contracts for nature inventories from the end of August this year. To save time, both studies – inventories and STEŚ – will take place simultaneously” – provides PAP.

CPK railway investments cover almost 1,800 km of new lines, which are to be built by the end of 2034. The CPK Railway Program consists of 12 railway routes, including 10 so-called spokes leading from various regions of Poland to Warsaw and CPK.

CPK is a planned transfer junction between Warsaw and Łódź, which will integrate air, rail and road transport. As part of this project, the CPK Airport will be built 37 km west of Warsaw, on an area of ​​approximately 3,000 hectares, which in the first stage will be able to handle 45 million passengers per year.

(PAP)

CPK is a new transport system for Poland, including the construction of the CPK- a central airport for Poland and a transfer hub for Central and Eastern Europe – located 37 km from the center of Warsaw. The investment will also cover a network of 1,800 km of railway lines and 400 km of new expressways.

The government wants to create a universal passenger transport system by building and operating a profitable, modern transport hub, which will be ranked in the top ten of the best airports in the world. It is also about rebuilding the national rail transport system as an attractive alternative to road transport. This system will cover all areas of Poland, while ensuring the development and permanent integration of the Warsaw and Łódź agglomerations.

CPK Port

CPK Port will be part of CPK – a node connecting air, rail and road transport. The investment includes not only a new hub airport, but also an integrated railway station.

An airport city will be built around the airport, containing business centers, hotels, parking lots, service buildings and logistics centers.

According to the current assumptions, in the first phase, the airport will have two runways, capable of handling 400,000 air operations per year, and a passenger terminal with a capacity of up to 45 million passengers per year. The airport area will enable the expansion of the infrastructure to four runways and 100 million passengers per year.

Rail Investments

Investments will be carried out by:

Centralny Port Komunikacyjny – for the construction of new railway lines with a length of approx. 1800 km. By 2023, it is planned to complete the preparatory work for the length of 1600 km.
PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe S.A. – for the modernization of the existing railway lines it manages, as well as the construction of new sections as part of the projects currently under preparation and of a short sections, supplementing the existing network.
Railway Institute – in terms of increasing the potential of research infrastructure.

Railway investments will include:

Spoke no. 1 (CPK – Kołobrzeg / Koszalin / Słupsk / Gdańsk), connecting CPK and Warsaw with Płock and important centers of the Pomeranian voivodeships (Tricity and Słupsk), Kuyavian-Pomeranian (Bydgoszcz, Toruń, Włocławek and Grudziądz) and Central Pomerania (Słupsk, Koszalin and Kołobrzeg). It can also be used to service Elbląg.
Spoke no. 2 (CPK – Olsztyn), connecting the CPK and Warsaw with Olsztyn. The result will be a shortening of the distance of the railway line for long-distance traffic on the Warsaw – Nasielsk section (better line geometry and ultimately higher maximum speed of trains and shorter travel time).
Spoke no. 3 (CPK – Ostrołęka – Łomża – Giżycko / Białystok – Trakiszki (border) / Kuźnica Białostocka (border)), which is a connection of CPK and Warsaw with the Masurian region, Podlaskie Voivodeship and – in foreign relations – with the Baltic countries (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia), Belarus and Russia.
Spoke no. 4 (CPK – Siedlce – Terespol (border)), connecting the CPK and Warsaw with the eastern part of the Masovian Voivodeship and the northern part of the Lubelskie Voivodeship.
Spoke no. 5 (CPK – Lublin – Chełm (border) / Zamość – Bełżec (border)), connecting CPK and Warsaw with important centers of the Lubelskie Voivodeship.
Spoke no. 6 (CPK – Radom – Rzeszów – Sanok), which is a connection of CPK and Warsaw with the southern part of the Masovian Voivodeship, the north-east of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship and the Podkarpackie Voivodeship.
Spoke no. 7 (CPK – Katowice – PL/CZ border / Kraków – Zakopane / Muszyna – PL/SK border / Kielce – Tarnów – Nowy Sącz / Skarżysko-Kamienna), connecting CPK and Warsaw with the southern part of the country and neighboring countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia) and through the planned high-speed lines also with Austria, Hungary and further south.
Spoke no. 8 (CPK – Piotrków Tryb. – Częstochowa – Opole – Kłodzko), connecting CPK and Warsaw with the northern part of the Śląskie Voivodeship, the Opolskie voivodeship and the Kotlina Kłodzka, with the possibility of extending via Międzylesie to the Czech Republic.
Spoke no. 9 (CPK – Łódź – Sieradz – Wrocław – Wałbrzych – PL/CZ border / Kalisz – Poznań – Szczecin / Ostrów Wlkp, – Zielona Góra / PL/DE border / Gorzów Wielkopolski), connecting the CPK and Warsaw with important centers of Western Poland and with the Czech Republic (HSR line to Prague) and Germany.
Spoke no. 10 (CPK – Łowicz – Kutno – Koło – Poznań), which is a connection of CPK and Warsaw with Poznań and the western and north-western part of the country.
Spoke no. 11 (Szczecin – Szczecin-Goleniów Airport), connecting Szczecin with the airport in Goleniów.
Spoke no. 12 (Stalowa Wola – Lublin – Biała Podlaska – Białystok), which is a connection among the largest cities in eastern Poland (Rzeszów, Lublin, Białystok) and numerous towns in this part of the country deprived of efficient rail transport.

Road investments

Investments will be carried out by the GDDKiA (General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways).
Investments planned:

• Construction of the ring road of the Warsaw Agglomeration (OAW): an expressway or motorway standard ring running approximately 40-50 km from the center of Warsaw, in in the immediate vicinity of the CPK Airport. This road will facilitate access from directions other than those served by A2 motorway.
• Construction of the S10 road connecting OAW with the A1 motorway near Toruń. S10 links the CPK with the Płock region and the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodship as well as a section of the A1 motorway, and will significantly improve the functioning of the road network in the western part of the Mazovian Voivodship.
• Expansion of the A2 motorway on the Łódź – Warsaw section with an additional lane in each direction.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, a first round of talks takes place as part of the competitive dialog with the airports: Incheon in Seoul and Narita in Tokyo. The strategic advisor is to provide CPK with additional operational and commercial know-how on the efficient management of large transfer airports, which is necessary at the stage of master planning and design.

Incheon and Narita airports have extensive consultancy experience in various parts of the world. The Seoul AirPort management company participated in airport investment projects in more than 20 locations of the world, including Turkey, Indonesia and Kuwait. Tokyo airport representatives participated in projects of this type among others in Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines.

The selection of the strategic adviser is one of the milestones of CPK implementation. The procedure will be completed this year. The agreement will be signed for a period of up to three years as it concerns the planning and design stages of the airport investment project.

In addition to the airport information, CPK has provided today details of the railway investments to be carried out between 2020 and 2034. The investment program of CPK assumes the construction of a network of new railway lines, including high-speed railways, which will connect most regions of Poland with Warsaw and the planned CPK within 2.5 hours.

Preparatory works are planned to be launched already this year for five railway lines with a total length of 563 km:

• Warsaw – CPK – Łódź – Sieradz – Wrocław – Wałbrzych – Polish border (Poland/Czech Republic)
• Ostrołęka – Łomża
• Trawniki – Krasnystaw – Zamość
• Łętownia – Rzeszów
• Chybie – Jastrzębie Zdrój – Godów – Polish border (Poland/Czech Republic)

These investment projects will be prepared first in order to commence construction works in 2023. The schedule assumes that before the end of 2023 the following should be in progress: earthworks, construction works (in the scope of selected disciplines), works on removal of conflicts with underground infrastructure and preparation of the area for the main works.

The Company’s goal for the next months will be to present technical solutions for selected lines, e.g. construction of new railway lines through selected areas on trestle bridges or in tunnels. This year, the first environmental surveys are to be commenced, which will constitute the basis for implementation of the procedure of the environmental impact assessment.

CPK railway investment projects plan consists of a total of 12 routes, including 10 so-called spokes running from various regions of Poland to Warsaw and CPK. In total, there are 30 investment tasks and 1,789 km of new railway lines, the investor of which is CPK, and which are to be completed by the end of 2034.

The construction and operation of the CPK Airport will give a powerful boost for the economy, the labor market and economic growth. The CPK project involves a stable schedule of planning, designing and construction of infrastructureinvestment projects scattered throughout Poland, which will be a boost to hundreds of companies and sectors, giving tens of thousands of jobs.

The concept of the preparation and construction of CPK Airport foresees that CPK will create a total of almost 150 thousand jobs, of which about 40 thousand related directly to the operation of the hub and another 110 thousand within the economic sectors related to the port, e.g. in the logistics, tourism, hotel, developer, trade and services sectors.

The airport industry is a major stimulus for the labor market in many parts of the world. According to the Investor’s estimates, about 20 thousand people will find jobs at the peak period of construction of the new terminal at Changi airport in Singapore. With the launch of Barajas airport in Madrid, as many as 300 thousandjobs were created (directly and in related industries) and Charlesde Gaulle airport in Paris contributed in the same way to the creation of almost 200 thousand jobs.

CPK will be an airport in Europe meeting the highest sanitary and epidemiological standards. By introducing the latest available solutions, already at the planning stage, Poland has the chance to create an airport that the passengers will trust. The so-called greenfieldinvestment, planned from scratch, has a huge advantage over airports which have been developed decades ago when many epidemiological risks have not yet been accounted for.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, a first round of talks takes place as part of the competitive dialog with the airports: Incheon in Seoul and Narita in Tokyo. The strategic advisor is to provide CPK with additional operational and commercial know-how on the efficient management of large transfer airports, which is necessary at the stage of master planning and design.

Since Poland has not implemented investment projects of this scale yet, CPK decided to take advantage of international experience by harnessing in the project the competences and resources held by the administrators of the best organized airports of the world.

SAYS MARCIN HORAŁA, GOVERNMENT PLENIPOTENTIARY FOR CPK.

Incheon and Narita airports have extensive consultancy experience in various parts of the world. The Seoul AirPort management company participated in airport investment projects in more than 20 locations of the world, including Turkey, Indonesia and Kuwait. Tokyo airport representatives participated in projects of this type among others in Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines.

For the role of the strategic advisor to CPK, we are looking for a global hub manager with experience in international projects related to planning, construction and management of a large transfer airport, including cargo transport

EXPLAINS MIKOŁAJ WILD, CEO OF CPK.

The selection of the strategic adviser is one of the milestones of CPK implementation. The procedure will be completed this year. The agreement will be signed for a period of up to three years as it concerns the planning and design stages of the airport investment project.

In addition to the airport information, CPK has provided today details of the railway investments to be carried out between 2020 and 2034. The investment program of CPK assumes the construction of a network of new railway lines, including high-speed railways, which will connect most regions of Poland with Warsaw and the planned CPK within 2.5 hours.

Preparatory works are planned to be launched already this year for five railway lines with a total length of 563 km:

• Warsaw – CPK – Łódź – Sieradz – Wrocław – Wałbrzych – Polish border (Poland/Czech Republic)
• Ostrołęka – Łomża
• Trawniki – Krasnystaw – Zamość
• Łętownia – Rzeszów
• Chybie – Jastrzębie Zdrój – Godów – Polish border (Poland/Czech Republic)

These investment projects will be prepared first in order to commence construction works in 2023. The schedule assumes that before the end of 2023 the following should be in progress: earthworks, construction works (in the scope of selected disciplines), works on removal of conflicts with underground infrastructure and preparation of the area for the main works.

The Company’s goal for the next months will be to present technical solutions for selected lines, e.g. construction of new railway lines through selected areas on trestle bridges or in tunnels. This year, the first environmental surveys are to be commenced, which will constitute the basis for implementation of the procedure of the environmental impact assessment.

Some large cities, such as Jastrzębie-Zdrój and Łomża, today have no railway connections. CPK rail investment projects, which aim to combat transport exclusion, are a unique opportunity to finally restore rail to many regions in Poland.

SAYS PIOTR MALEPSZAK, MEMBER OF CPK MANAGEMENT BOARD FOR RAILWAY INVESTMENT PROJECTS.

CPK railway investment projects plan consists of a total of 12 routes, including 10 so-called spokes running from various regions of Poland to Warsaw and CPK. In total, there are 30 investment tasks and 1,789 km of new railway lines, the investor of which is CPK, and which are to be completed by the end of 2034.

The construction and operation of the CPK Airport will give a powerful boost for the economy, the labor market and economic growth. The CPK project involves a stable schedule of planning, designing and construction of infrastructureinvestment projects scattered throughout Poland, which will be a boost to hundreds of companies and sectors, giving tens of thousands of jobs.

The concept of the preparation and construction of CPK Airport foresees that CPK will create a total of almost 150 thousand jobs, of which about 40 thousand related directly to the operation of the hub and another 110 thousand within the economic sectors related to the port, e.g. in the logistics, tourism, hotel, developer, trade and services sectors.

The airport industry is a major stimulus for the labor market in many parts of the world. According to the Investor’s estimates, about 20 thousand people will find jobs at the peak period of construction of the new terminal at Changi airport in Singapore. With the launch of Barajas airport in Madrid, as many as 300 thousandjobs were created (directly and in related industries) and Charlesde Gaulle airport in Paris contributed in the same way to the creation of almost 200 thousand jobs.

CPK will be an airport in Europe meeting the highest sanitary and epidemiological standards. By introducing the latest available solutions, already at the planning stage, Poland has the chance to create an airport that the passengers will trust. The so-called greenfieldinvestment, planned from scratch, has a huge advantage over airports which have been developed decades ago when many epidemiological risks have not yet been accounted for.

The companies invited to the consultations include, i.a., Polskie Linie Lotnicze LOT, LS Airport Services and Welcome Airport Services handling companies, LOT AMS and LS Technics technical maintenance companies, Poczta Polska, DHL, FedEx, UPS and TNT freight forwarding and logistics companies, Orlen and Lotos fuel suppliers, as well as, among others, the Polish Medical Air Rescue, Police, Border Guard, Chief Sanitary Inspectorate and Institute of Meteorology and Water Management.

The CPK company asked the air service providers and the state institutions about both the inventory of their infrastructure currently present at the Chopin Airport and about the forecasts and expectations for the end of 2027 when the first stage of the CPK is planned to be handed over for operation. The questions concern, among others:

• Type of buildings
• Minimum required surface area
• Number and location of facilities
• Surface area and cubic capacity of buildings
• Required vicinity of other infrastructure elements
• Utilities supply
• Demad for parking areas and staging areas
• Number of employees in the facilities.

The information will be collected from the entities involved by 1 July 2020. The CPK company plans that the companies and institutions will receive a summary of this stage of the consultations on 15July.

The data collected in this way will be processed and used to the extent specified in the conditions of cooperation with the Master Planner. The company is currently conducting a tender procedure in order to select a company to perform this function.

The 350-page strategic brief of the CPK is an integral part of the preparations for the Master Plan, which systematised the assumptions of the infrastructure elements. It is based on almost 10 thousand comments from almost 150 entities that participated in previous consultation stages this and last year.

At the same time, the concept of the future airport is reviewed by air carriers within the Airport Consultative Committee (ACC), which was set up last year by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) in cooperation with the CPK. So far, two meetings took place within the ACC in Warsaw: in July and October last year. Currently, due to the global epidemiological situation, meetings are held online.

Currently a Multiannual Programme is at the stage of government arrangements, which will determine the planned expenditures on the CPK in the following years. The company plans for the next three months also include, among others, the selection of a strategic advisor from among the largest and the best operational hub airports of the world.

The letter of intent signed this week between the CPK and SŽDC announces the establishment of a working group composed of experts from both countries. The aim is to cooperate closely on the implementation of new lines: design and construction of missing infrastructure, increase of railway network capacity and reduction of travel time for railway connections between Poland and the Czech Republic.

The cooperation defined in the letter of intent goes beyond the latest CEF application, including coordination of the preparation and construction of not only the new cross-border Katowice-Ostrava line, but also the Wrocław-Prague line (as the planned elements of the TEN-T network). The Parties undertook to cooperate closely in the determination of the exact route, including the determination of the location of theinterface points of the line at the border of the states, as well as to agree on detailed technical parameters of the investment. The scope of cooperation includes, i.a., the exchange of information, technical documentation, analytical studies and study works as well as support in the scope facilitating the planning, preparation and implementation of the project.

The above investments will be part of the CPK Program which assumes construction of approx. 1600 km of new lines (the so-called spoke railway lines) running from 10 directions to the new airport and to Warsaw. These lines will ensure the coherence of the national railway network, connecting the voivodship cities with the capital, with the CPK, as well as with each other. As part of the zero-stage which should be ready before CPK Airport becomes operational, 140 km of a new high-speed line will be built on the Warsaw-CPK -Łódź route.

Each of the 10 spokes leading to the CPK will consist of: new track sections and renovated or modernized parts of the existing infrastructure. For the purposes of construction of this railway system, investment tasks have already been divided between the following companies: CPK, responsible for execution of airport and railway tasks (construction of new lines), and PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe, which is the railway infrastructure administrator in Poland and is responsible for modernization of the existing lines.

Planned airport and railway investments will provide a positive boost to the economy and the labor market, both during and after construction. The new railway lines will connect most of the regions of Poland with CPK and Warsaw in a time no longer than 2.5 hours. The investment project will also include the connection of previously unconnected cities to the railway network (i.e. Grójec, Jastrzębie-Zdrój, Łomża, Kolno, Tomaszów Lubelski), it will also entail increased investment attractiveness of the towns which will gain direct long-distance connections (for example: Busko-Zdrój, Grudziądz, Kłodzko, Nysa, Ostrołęka Płock, Sanok, Zamość).

The CPK investment is a huge boost for the labor market. For comparison: a new passenger terminal of Changi East is planned to be constructed in Singapore. The aerodrome estimates that 20 thousand people will be employed in the construction works during the peak period. In the case of a new airport in Istanbul opened last year, the number of employees at the construction site amounted to 35 thousand.

Global political and economic crises happened before and most of them have been the cause of a sudden decline in air travel and had a negative impact on the aviation sector in the short term, for example following the attacks of 11 September, the SARS epidemic. In the long term, the traffic was restored, ultimately to increase further at a later time.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) indicates that the 2nd quarter of 2020 will be a time of the largest decreases in passenger aviation. According to IATA, a gradual upwards trend should start afterwards. We do not know how long this period of market restoration will last as of yet, but there is no doubt that, “at the end of the day”, passengers will resume air travel.

The main objective of the SLS was to designate rail and road investment corridors – several kilometers wide – which will be the basis for further study and design works.  The CPK planners proposed several variants for new transport routes inside the corridors. For the time being, they are indicative and are not binding.

The proposals and comments concern, to the greatest extent, a dozen or so locations, including Kraków, Konstantynów Łódzki, Wieliszew, Grójec and Bolimów in the Mazovian region, Miedziana Góra near Kielce, Dąbrowa Górnicza, Olkusz andMikołówin Silesian Voivodeship and Jelcz-Laskowice in Lower Silesia. Most of them include proposals to change the route of the proposed variants, e.g. to route railway lines through undeveloped areas (fields, forests, meadows) or, on the contrary, to limit interference in such areas due to the protection of green areas.

Some proposals also called for even better service than that planned for some towns, either by building new railway lines or by integrating existing lines into the CPK lines. Such comments were received by CPK Poland e.g. from Toruń, Bydgoszcz, Elbląg, Skarżysko-Kamienna and Starachowice.

Some of the comments also related to the corridors and variants of the planned Warsaw Agglomeration Ringroad (OAW). They will be submitted by the CPK for analysis to the General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways, with which on March 11 this year CPK concluded a cooperation agreement for planning, design and construction of road investments related to the CPK.

CPK Poland is currently analyzing the comments gathered in the SLS consultations. They will be summarized in a report, which is expected to be published by the end ofJune this year. The final date will depend on the number and complexity of the comments submitted in hard copy (most of them were received during the last days of consultations and those sent by post are still being received).

In the coming months, CPK plans to start another phase of the consultations: meetings will be organized successively in the communes which are located on the routes of the variants.

The CPK Rail Program will mean a sharp reduction of travel times for passengers. For example, the journey by train from Warsaw to CPK Airport will take 15 minutes and from Łódź – less than 30 minutes. We will get to Warsaw from Wrocław and Poznań within less than 2 hours, and the travel time between Kraków and Katowice will be reduced to only 35 minutes.Jastrzębie-Zdrój and Łomża, which cannot be accessed by train today, will also be connected, among other towns to the railway network.

Each of the 12 planned lines, of which 10 basic so-called spokes connect individual regions of the country with the CPK and Warsaw, will consist of new track sections and renovated or modernized parts of the existing infrastructure. The construction will be the responsibility of CPK and the modernization will be the responsibility of PKP Polish State Railways.

In the agreement signed today, CPK and GDDKiA undertook to exchange data on an ongoing basis, e.g. technical documentation and to maintain a continuous contact of the working teams performing planning, design and construction works. Close cooperation between the two entities is intended to help make optimum investment decisions.

According to the governmental CPK investment preparation and implementation concept, the planned projects related to the construction of a new transfer hub include the extension of the network of express routes and motorways.