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By the end of the year, the international tender for the new container terminal of the port of Klaipeda
It will have an annual traffic capacity of 2.5 million TEUs
Klaipeda
May 18, 2026
The Port Authority of Klaipeda, announcing the appointment
of the consulting firm Ernst & Young Baltic for the
provision of assistance in the phases of the procedure, announced that
by the end of the year it will publish the international call for tenders
for the construction and management of the new development area
in the southern part of the Lithuanian port which will be able to
to accommodate Baltmax ships up to 490 meters in length,
width up to 70 meters and with a draft up to -15.5 meters. The
construction of the new port area, with an area of 100
hectares, will involve an expected expenditure of more than one
billion euros and will be one of the largest investments in the
carried out in Lithuania. The contract with Ernst &
Young Baltic is worth 868 thousand euros.
On 75 hectares of the new port area,
a container terminal dedicated mainly to the activity of
transhipment with a quay of 1,280 linear meters and a capacity
of annual traffic of 2.5 million TEUs. On another five hectares
services related to container traffic will be established,
while a park will be built on the remaining 20 hectares
wind power.
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