The Free Port of Riga started elaboration of the draft design for the ship access channel reconstruction. The dredging project aims at deepening and widening of the Port of Riga harbor access channels to provide secure services to vessels with maximum length of 260 meters, beam up to 48 meters, and draft up to 15 meters, Baltic Course reports.
"The deepening of the harborage and berths has been going on for several years. However, with the implementation of this project we want to provide conditions that every ship with the draft corresponding to the depth of the Baltic Sea could enter the Port of Riga. I want to remind that the depth of the Danish Straits is 17 meters only; therefore, only the vessels with draft up to 15 meters can enter the Baltic Sea. The Port of Riga is going to comply with these standards," the BC correspondent quotes Ainars Šlesers, the Freeport of Riga Board’s Chairman as saying.