Providing of safe berthing of Ro-Ro ferries in the port of Liepaja

The port of Liepaja lies on the coast of the Baltic Sea and by handling ~ 7 million tons per annum is a part of the comprehensive Trans - European transport (hereinafter in the text: TEN-T) network. Upgrading the port’s infrastructure will strengthen the TEN - T network and improve safe, sustainable, and efficient connections within the European Union and with the neighbouring countries.

Ensuring regular and continuous ferry traffic directly depends on the technical condition of the port infrastructure used to service it. The port of Liepaja Pier No. 46 was built in the period from 1972 to 1975 with the aim of ensuring the mooring and servicing ships and submarines of the Soviet Navy. In modern conditions, piers used for servicing regular ferry traffic are subjected to increased loads caused by ships mooring and departing from the pier by using powerful ship engines, creating loads that exceed the loads that ships created on the pier structures in the 1970s and 1980s. 

The objective of the project “Providing of safe berthing of Ro-Ro ferries in the port of Liepaja” (hereinafter in the text: Project) is to provide safe berthing of Ro-Ro ferries in the port of Liepaja, thus, strengthening TEN – T infrastructure’s capacity and enhancing internal and external markets accessibility through improved maritime transport links.

The implementation of the Project includes the installation of additional mooring piles, reconstruction of the pier structures and increasing the water depth from 10.5 to 12.0 m and will ensure safe servicing of RO – RO / RO – PAX ferries with a maximum length of up to 240.0 meters and a draft of up to 11.0 meters.

The total cost of project implementation is 23,090,050 EUR.

Project “Providing of safe berthing of Ro-Ro ferries in the port of Liepaja” (project acronym 22-LV-TG-LPXRORO) is partly financed under the CEF2027 program (topic ID – CEF-T-2022-COMPGEN-MARP-WORKS, project No. 101122785). Connecting Europe Facility contribution covers 30% of Project’s eligible costs and is 6,927,015 EUR.