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The Cadiz Bay Harbour Authority has awar-
ded the contract to build the new Cadiz
container terminal to a joint venture part-
nering ACCIONA and FCC in equal shares.
The project is a strategic step in the reorga-
nization and fostering of the city’s harbour-
related business.
The frst phase of the 91-million-euro pro-
ject calls for the construction of a new
22-hectare terminal with 590 metres of
wharf length and a draft of 16 metres, plus
a 320-metre sea wall. The new terminal will
stand between the Levante jetty and Na-
vantia Quay Number 5. Completion is sche-
duled for within three and a half years.
The new terminal will make it possible to
shift container traffc from its current lo-
cation to purpose-built facilities with more
equipment and services, at a location that
will avoid routing heavy traffc through the
city centre and will separate passenger and
goods activities inside the harbour zone.
The new terminal will substantially increase
the storage area available, and, because
it will have a 16-metre draft instead of the
10.5-metre draft at the current container
zone, it will be able to accommodate larger
ships.
FCC has a great deal of experience in
major port and harbour projects. Jobs
such as the La Condamine foating
dock in the Principality of Monaco, the
new Seville lock, the enlargement of El
Musel Harbour in Gijón, the bulk go-
ods terminal at Castellón Harbour and
Igoumenitsa Harbour in Greece are just
a small sample of the frm’s experience
from its long list of successfully fnished
jobs in this type of infrastructure.
Relevant
experience
New container
terminal in Cadiz
The design combines a number of cons-
truction methods employing rock armour,
caissons and cubic concrete blocks. It
also includes the dredging of neighbouring
areas as needed to enable ships to ma-
noeuvre and to ensure the fnal depth of
the water next to the terminal. The fgures
help illustrate the sheer size of the project:
3.2 million cubic metres of dredging, more
than 100,000 cubic metres of concrete, a
total of 8,000 cubic concrete blocks (each
weighing 12 metric tons), 1.1 million cubic
metres of quarry material and four million
kilos of steel.
The proposal submitted by the ACCIONA/
FCC joint venture calls for the utmost in en-
vironmental protection measures, in order
to get the work done with the least possible
environmental impact, as required by the
environmental impact statement and refec-
ted in the tender.