LOT Polish Airlines has contracted 11 new Boeing 737 Max 8 airplanes for 186 passengers from The Boeing Company. The first one is to be delivered in the beginning of May and two others during this summer holidays. Now LOT has 11 such two-engine narrow jets and the delivery of 11 new ones is to…
Building shell of Olszynki Park complex in Rzeszów has just been completed. It contains 220-metre tower with 41 overground levels that is the highest residential building in Poland and the second 78-metre tower with 18 levels. The complex has been designed by S.T. Architekci and developed by Deweloper Apklan. Borth towers contain 292 apartments, the…
PricewaterhouseCoopers produced the report “The Economic Impact of a Westinghouse AP1000 Reactor Project in Poland” for Westinghouse and its owners, Brookfield and Cameco. According to the report, six Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear power units will produce more than $30bn of GDP impact and their subsequent operation would generate $9.5bn in GDP annually. In November 2022 Poland…
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) launched the world’s first regional Clean Energy Training Center in Warsaw to help start Poland’s domestic nuclear energy program. The center will serve Poland and broader Central European region as a training hub for countries considering new or expanded nuclear reactor deployment. The first training session was launched at Warsaw Technical University in cooperation with the…
JAKUB STANIEWSKI, 24-year-old Polish Director of Operations at the leading US real estate agency Serhant in New York City, but also social activist and founder of the Polish Youth Association, in a conversation with MAREK GIZMAJER. This year you gave interviews to several Polish media that were amazed by your professional success at the leading…
On Wednesday, 24th April, the European Parliament approved construction of Poland’s Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK) in the Trans-European Transport Network TEN-T. The Regulation on the network development was passed by overwhelming majority of 565 votes will enter into force 20 days after publication in the Official Journal. By adopting it the Parliament updated the EU’s…
New LNG gas carriers “Józef Piłsudski” and “Ignacy Paderewski” owned by ORLEN group will start service in 2025 increasing the group’s LNG fleet to six ships. Construction of both carriers in Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries shipyard is on schedule and expected to end in first half of 2025. Like the group’s previous carriers, “Lech Kaczyński”,…
The European Space Agency’s project AGRONAUT is developing a multi-purpose Moon lander intended to support a broad range of missions, like supplies of cargo for bases, researches, rovers and power stations. The main element of the lander is a robotic manipulator to carry objects to the Moon surface engineered by a Polish space robotics company…
On 20 March the Polish Minister of Digitalisation and the Minister of Science and Higher Education signed the European Declaration on Quantum Technologies of December 2023, also known as the Quantum Pact, already jointed by 18 EU Member States. The Quantum Pact expects all the European quantum computers to be connected within one network. The…
ORLEN has successfully completed the acquisition of 100% stake in Doppler Energie that manages 267 service stations across Austria under Turmöl brand. The transaction expands ORLEN’s network to nearly 3,500 modern service stations across seven European countries. The Group is now exploring additional acquisition opportunities in the region and is taking steps to establish itself…
The European Parliament Transport Committee has put Poland’s Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (or Solidarity Transport Hub) on the list of EU’s strategic investments. The new CPK airport with its roads and railways node is included in the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) together with 38 other Polish airports, maritime ports and rail/road terminals. TEN-T is the EU’s…
In the end of December 2023 Eiropas Dzelzceļa Līnijas implementing the Latvian part of Rail Baltica project signed € 3.7b contract with the winning consortium ERB RAIL composed of Eiffage Génie Civil (France), Budimex (Poland) and Rizzani de Eccher (Italy) to construct 230 km of high-speed railway in Latvia. Now technical documentation and formalities are…