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CPK launches its own think tank to pursue mega-projects in Asia and Africa

From Rzeczpospolita · () Polish

Translated from Polish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

At a glance

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  • Port Polska has created the Transport and Mobility Centre to consolidate expertise gained from the Port Polska transport hub project.
  • The commercial think tank will cover railways, roads, aviation, public transport and logistics, supporting public and private projects.
  • Its leaders want to export Polish expertise to markets including the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

Port Polska is turning the experience gathered from its flagship infrastructure plans into a commercial consulting venture aimed at projects far beyond Poland. The company has established the Transport and Mobility Centre, or CTM, as a think tank bringing together planners, designers, analysts and economists.

The centre will cover the full transport system, including railways, roads, aviation, public transport and logistics. Its expertise will draw on projects such as the planned airport at Baranów, the High-Speed Railway system, the Integrated Railway Network and the Horizontal Timetable.

As we build infrastructure, we build skills and experience that we want to share.

· Piotr RachwalskiHe described the expertise Port Polska gained through its major transport projects.

Piotr Rachwalski, a member of the Port Polska management board, said the centre would be built on experience gained through the Port Polska project, whose scale he compared with the pre-war construction of the port in Gdynia. “As we build infrastructure, we build skills and experience that we want to share,” he said.

We want to monetize this knowledge and experience and try to earn from it.

· Piotr RachwalskiHe explained the commercial purpose of the new think tank.

CTM is intended to operate commercially and support both public and private projects. Its experts have already held workshops for Italian and Portuguese counterparts. Portugal is planning a similar infrastructure project near Lisbon, involving a new airport linked to the capital and Porto by a high-speed rail network.

Rachwalski said Polish specialists could seek contracts not only in Europe but also in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. He said Poland had a particularly recent experience of building high-speed railways and could help countries such as the Czech Republic and Hungary prepare projects. “We want to monetize this knowledge and experience and try to earn from it,” he told Rzeczpospolita. He added that such services could offer high margins and allow Poland to use its intellectual potential abroad.

These are high-margin services, and it is worth using our intellectual potential in this way.

· Piotr RachwalskiHe discussed potential work for clients in the Middle East and other foreign markets.
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Originally published by Rzeczpospolita in Polish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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