The Tarragona Port Authority has picked FCC Construcción, in a joint venture with COPISA, to enlarge the Chemical Quay at Tarragona Harbour. The job is worth 67.4 million euro, VAT included, and it has a completion period of 26 months and 12 days.

At present the quay has an area of 141,029 square metres, with an 880-metre berthing line, and it is used exclusively for chemical liquids.

The new infrastructure, sited inside the harbour basin next to the mouth of the Francolí River, will add significantly to the size of the Chemical Quay in response to the demand for more room to meet the growing development of the quay's activity.

The project will make available an additional new area of about 18 hectares reclaimed from the sea, with a 1,200-metre berthing line built using 34 reinforced-concrete caissons and nine mooring points in deeper water. About 2,840,000 cubic metres of fill dredged out of the basin is expected to be used.

One of the more-important processes calls for moving all of Berth No. 4 (where licensee bulk liquids are loaded and unloaded) without interrupting service. That job is going to be quite complex in terms of construction and will constitute a major budget item.