WARSAW, June 26 (Xinhua) -- The Polish government will go ahead with the building of a mega-airport and transport hub in central Poland, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said here on Wednesday.
"We will bring out the essence of projects modernizing the communication system in Poland," Tusk said. "This project will be a kind of triple jump into the modern structure of the Polish state that meets the challenges of the 21st century."
The Central Communication Port (CPK), or Warsaw Solidarity Airport, will be located between Warsaw and the central city of Lodz, and will integrate air, rail and road transport. As part of this project, an airport will be built 37 km west of Warsaw, on an area of 30 square kilometers.
The launch of two parallel runways and infrastructure is planned for 2028, and these will be able to serve 40 million passengers annually by 2035.
The project is aligned with European Union transport goals, and Brussels already subsidizes some of CPK's railway projects to the tune of over 400 million Polish zlotys (90 million U.S. dollars) as part of the trans-European transport TEN-T network.
A study by Kearney has found that the project could add between 4 billion and 5.5 billion dollars a year to Poland's gross domestic product and create 240,000 to 290,000 new jobs. ■
