From 22 to 26 June the Polish President Andrzej Duda visited China to meet the President Xi Jinping and participate in the World Economic Forum in Dalian, the Polish-Chinese Economic Forum in Shanghai and other events. During four-hour talks the Presidents discussed bilateral economic co-operation, global politics, security and the Belt and Route Initiative started…
On 26 June at a press conference the PM Donald Tusk, the Minister with the Vice-Minister for Infrastructure and the Government’s Plenipotentiary announced continuation of Poland’s key infrastructural project Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK), also named Solidarity Transport Hub, started in 2018 and suspended after the parliamentary elections in October 2023 for the present government’s audits….
From 1 July 2024 diesel cars over 18 years old and petrol cars over 27 years old are banned from Warsaw centre. This is the first such measure implemented in Poland. The Clean Transport Zone (Strefa Czystego Transportu) covers an area of 37 sq.m. representing 7% of the city. It includes the entire Śródmieście district…
The consortium of the Military University of Technology as the leader, the Military Institute of Medicine and TELDAT Sp. z o.o., with financial support of the Polish National Centre for Research and Development, are developing R&D project of construction of the Medical Evacuation Decision Support System Swd-EwMed to monitor health of soldiers on a battlefield….
On 9th May the Polish company ElectroMobility Poland (EMP) obtained the construction permit from the Mayor of Jaworzno to start construction of the factory of Izera, the first Polish Electric Vehicle (EV). The investment will revive the former industrial and mining area with the automotive industry that today contributes to almost 10% of Poland’s GDP….
In 2023 Orlen launched the Hydrogen Academy, the first Polish education programme for H2 specialists in various industries, like manufacturing, aviation, shipping and transportation. So far courses have been organised with a few dozen lecturers and experts for students and graduates at several locations in Poland, like Anwill Włocławek (chemical facilities), Toyota Motor Poland, Toyota…
On 10 May 2024 the Minister of Climate and Environment issued the decision-in-principle to Świętokrzyska Grupa Przemysłowa Industria in Kielce for construction of the first nuclear power plant containing Small Modular Reactor in Rolls-Royce SMR technology with spent nuclear fuel storage as the plant’s integral part. The document entitles Industria to apply for further administrative…
Polish data company Atman obtained a loan at zł 1.35b ($ 337m) for construction of 50,000 servers data centre in Duchnice near Warsaw. This is the biggest data centre loan in Poland enabling Atman to become a leading data collector and processor in the country and CEE. The campus named WAW-3 will host servers in…
This year Polska Żegluga Morska (Polish Steamship Company) received 3 new bulk carriers in the series of 12 contracted from Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company (DSIC) in China. They are the so-called lake-max ships, i.e. 200 m long and 23.7 m wide adjusted to the system of channels and sluices of the Great Lakes in USA….
New container terminal T3 is constructed in the Baltic Hub (DCT Gdańsk) by a consortium of Budimex (Poland) and Deme Dredging (Belgium) to become the biggest deep container terminal on the Baltic Sea with over 20 automated gantries and 20 harbour cranes. 40 ha of T3 artificial isle “enlarging” the territory of Poland has been…
In 1994 Poland as the first Central-European Country signed the co-operation agreement with the European Space Agency (ESA) and in 2014 the Polish Space Agency (POLSA) was established. Thanks to this Polish institutions and companies have been attending ESA’s missions, including the most recent one JUICE – Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer – to research Jupiter…
Jagiellonian University scientists have developed the world’s first method of fast identification of bacteria and fungi in photographs from light microscopes. The innovative technology was developed in collaboration with the Department of Molecular Medical Microbiology coordinated by Professor Monika Brzychczy-Włoch and the Institute of Computer Science and Computer Mathematics coordinated by Bartosz Zieliński Ph.D, a…