The Port of Gothenburg in Sweden has finished strengthening the south quay serving its container terminal. The work clears the way for blasting and dredging alongside the berth to begin on Tuesday, October 13.
The port said the quay work, which took more than two years, was finished on schedule and within budget.
Boskalis Sweden will dredge a 50-metre-wide strip of water beside the westernmost 700 metres of the south quay. The port expects the work to remove more than 200,000 cubic metres of soft material and about 30,000 cubic metres of rock, with completion in March 2027.
The area beside the quay is being designed for vessels with a maximum draught of 17.5 metres. The port awarded the contract to Boskalis in April.
The near-quay works form the port's share of the Skandia Gateway project, which it is carrying out with the Swedish Maritime Administration and the Swedish Transport Administration.
The wider project will deepen and widen the fairway and turning basin from the current maximum depth of 13.5 metres to between 16.5 and 17.5 metres. It will also modify navigational aids.
A contract for the fairway and turning basin works is planned to be signed by the maritime administration in early 2027, and work is scheduled to start in August 2027. The parties aim to have the new fairway and quay operational before the end of 2028.
The partners cancelled the original joint tender in October 2025 after bids exceeded the available budget. They then split the work into separate procurements, and the fairway was redesigned to reduce costs.
