Project record

Skandia Gateway fairway and quay deepening

Large container vessel alongside Skandiahamnen, the quay and fairway system being expanded through Skandia Gateway

Port of Gothenburg

Skandia Gateway combines an active 700-metre quay reinforcement and deepening package, an awarded Boskalis port-side blasting and dredging contract, and a re-procured Swedish Maritime Administration fairway package. The former joint dredging procurement was cancelled in October 2025 after bids exceeded the state budget, then split and redesigned. The optimized authority design keeps 16.5 metres as the fairway depth with 17.5 metres as an option and reduces dredged areas without publishing a replacement total volume. Usable capacity still depends on accepted quay, port reach, national fairway, navigation aids, and operating controls.

Project signal

Construction in Sweden

Track three linked acceptance boundaries rather than one completion percentage: terminal quay and equipment capacity, the port-side dredging and turning area, and the national fairway with navigation markings and published usable draft. Financing, contract award, dredged quantity, and civil completion do not close the same gate.

Current status Quay construction active; port-side dredging awarded; optimized national fairway package in procurement for 2027-2028 delivery Source confidence Confirmed

Location

Sweden / Europe

Segment

Port infrastructure

Status

Quay construction active; port-side dredging awarded; optimized national fairway package in procurement for 2027-2028 delivery / Confirmed

Evidence reviewed

15 July 2026

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Project anatomy

Scope, counterparties, and execution logic

Client / authority
Port of Gothenburg for the port-side package; Swedish Maritime Administration for the wider fairway
Delivery parties
Boskalis Sweden AB (port-side blasting and dredging package), NCC Sweden (design and construction of the quay reinforcement and deepening package)
Contract route
The Port of Gothenburg and Swedish Maritime Administration opened a joint dredging procurement in November 2024, cancelled it in October 2025 after bids exceeded the state budget, and then split the work. The port signed an approximately SEK 202 million Boskalis contract for quay-adjacent blasting and dredging in April 2026. The authority reopened the optimized national fairway and edge-beacon package in May 2026 with a target to sign in early 2027. EIB records separately describe the NCC design-and-build quay package procured through partnering, with design contracted in 2020 and construction ordered in December 2023. None of the Boskalis, NCC, or EIB records constitutes the national fairway award.
Execution window
NCC entered the quay construction phase in December 2023 and the port records physical quay reinforcement from February 2024. The Boskalis port-side dredging window runs from October 2026 to March 2027. The authority's optimized procurement targets a national contract in early 2027, dredging from August 2027, and fairway completion by the end of 2028. The current port overview instead schedules overall programme completion during 2029. Both owner statements remain in the record until a common controlled baseline or accepted opening record is published.
Works package
The port-side system covers about 700 metres of quay deepening and reinforcement, excavation, rock-bottom securing, a new crane beam, replacement sheet piling, a new quay front, erosion protection, and Boskalis blasting and dredging beside the quay. The authority package covers the wider fairway, turning area, slopes, hydrography, and edge beacons. The May 2026 redesign narrows selected fairway sections, reduces the dredged area south and east of the turning area, keeps 16.5 metres as the base fairway depth, and retains 17.5 metres as an option.
Marine interfaces
Published volume frames are no longer directly comparable: the port's current overview retains an approximately 11-million-cubic-metre programme figure, the November 2024 joint tender described about 9 million cubic metres and 12 beacons, and the May 2026 optimized design says dredged areas were reduced without giving a replacement total. Quay and crane-rail integration, blasting, rock-bottom securing, turning geometry, live vessel traffic, beacon changes, dredged-material disposal, turbidity and piling controls, hydrographic acceptance, and operating restrictions must converge across two public owners and multiple contracts.
Commercial read
The SEK 202 million Boskalis award is a bounded quay-adjacent package created after the failed joint procurement. EIB records show approximately SEK 850 million of finance against an estimated SEK 1.7 billion port quay project, not a value for the national fairway. The authority's budget increase and reopened procurement do not establish a national contract value or award. The port's 11-million-cubic-metre overview, the former tender's 9-million-cubic-metre scope, and the optimized but unquantified reduction should not be merged into one current production baseline.
Next milestone
Track Boskalis mobilisation for the October 2026 window, NCC quay and crane-beam progress, dredged-material and turbidity controls, port-reach survey acceptance, the national fairway contract targeted for early 2027, the revised controlled dredging quantity, August 2027 authority mobilisation, edge-beacon changes, hydrographic acceptance, and formal publication of usable draft after system commissioning.

Material change register

What changed, when, and what it proves

Only source-bound events that alter phase, scope, counterparties, delivery, completion, commissioning, or acceptance are listed. A change can advance the record without proving the next gate.

Authority reopened an optimized and split fairway procurement

The Swedish Maritime Administration reduced selected fairway and turning-area dredging, retained 16.5 metres as the base depth with 17.5 metres as an option, and separated the port-side and national contracts. The update advances procurement but does not establish the revised total volume, national award, completed geometry, or operating draft.

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Port awarded the quay-adjacent dredging package to Boskalis

The approximately SEK 202 million contract covers blasting and dredging beside the terminal quay during an October 2026 to March 2027 window. The port-side package is separate from the national fairway award; mobilisation, accepted port-reach depth and usable vessel draft remain future evidence.

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EIB signed financing for the port's quay package

The signed approximately SEK 850 million financing supports a roughly 700-metre quay project with an estimated SEK 1.7 billion cost. It does not finance or award the complete national fairway, prove construction completion, or establish operating capacity.

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Joint dredging procurement was cancelled after over-budget bids

The two public owners stopped the combined tender because bids exceeded the state-funded budget and announced a split into quay-adjacent and wider-fairway packages. The cancellation invalidated the former procurement route and schedule as an award baseline.

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Owners opened the former joint dredging procurement

The tender described about 9 million cubic metres, 12 beacons, an August 2026 planned start, and February 2028 target completion. Those figures document the former tender frame; the later cancellation and redesign mean they are not the current contracted quantity or schedule.

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NCC entered the quay construction phase

The just-over-SEK-1-billion partnering order moved the quay from detailed design into construction, covering front sheet piling, foundation piles, a crane girder and utility systems. The notice leaves completion and the separate fairway award unresolved.

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Delivery watch

Evidence needed next

Track Boskalis mobilisation for the October 2026 window, NCC quay and crane-beam progress, dredged-material and turbidity controls, port-reach survey acceptance, the national fairway contract targeted for early 2027, the revised controlled dredging quantity, August 2027 authority mobilisation, edge-beacon changes, hydrographic acceptance, and formal publication of usable draft after system commissioning.

Decision watchpoints

  • Boskalis mobilisation and the October 2026 to March 2027 port-dredging window
  • NCC quay-front, sheet-pile, crane-beam, and erosion-protection progress
  • Dredged-material route, turbidity limits, piling controls, and vessel-traffic management
  • Port basin and turning-circle hydrographic acceptance
  • Swedish Maritime Administration fairway award, revised quantity, and August 2027 start
  • Navigational-marking installation and nautical-system commissioning
  • Published usable draft and two-vessel terminal operating evidence

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Evidence reviewed 15 July 2026 Sources in this record 10

Source record

NCC's 7 December 2023 release controls the construction-stage order and immediate transition from design into production. The Port of Gothenburg's current project page records February 2024 quay reinforcement, Q3 2027 authority dredging, and programme completion during 2029. The Swedish Maritime Administration controls the 22 November 2024 joint procurement, its 17 October 2025 cancellation after over-budget bids, and the 4 May 2026 optimized split. That latest authority release sets a 16.5-metre base depth, a 17.5-metre option, reduced dredged areas, a target national contract in early 2027, August 2027 dredging, and end-2028 completion; it does not publish a revised total volume. The port's 20 April 2026 release controls the approximately SEK 202 million Boskalis port-side package and October 2026 to March 2027 window. EIB's signed record controls the roughly 700-metre quay package, estimated SEK 1.7 billion cost, approximately SEK 850 million finance, and environmental controls. The closed CEF study is preparatory evidence, not construction proof. The port's 11-million-cubic-metre overview, the former tender's 9-million-cubic-metre frame and the 2028/2029 completion statements remain unreconciled without a newer common baseline.

Phase: construction. Evidence reviewed: 15 July 2026.

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