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Today, the sales center of the Riga Port City real estate development project Riga Waterfront opens in the Riga Passenger Port building on the Daugava embankment.

On May 7, the winner of the architectural design competition for the new passenger and ro-ro cargo terminal Riga Ropax Terminal was decided. The award went to world-renown London-based architect office Zaha Hadid Architects. here are the sketches created by the architects' office.

Today, May 7, the winners of the architectural competition for the new passenger and ro-ro cargo terminal Riga Ropax Terminal were awarded. The world-renowned London-based architecture firm Zaha Hadid Architects won first place.

On January 10, 2024, the phase of several years of intensive work has come to an end. Riga Port City has today agreed on cooperation in the development of the Andrejsala and Andrejosta territories with the United Arab Emirates real estate development company "Eagle Hills" and its manager Mohamed Alabbar.

LLC "Riga Ropax Terminal” announces an open meta project competition for a new passenger and ro-ro cargo terminal. The deadline for submission of proposals is 25 March 2024, with 14 weeks for architects to submit their ideas.

The local plan for the southern part of Eksportosta also includes the development of the area surrounding the terminal, including improvements to public transport connectivity and landscaping of the neighbourhood.

Geopolitical Challenges, the Green Course and the new Ropax terminal. It is expected that in a few years, if the project develops successfully, a new passenger and ro-ro cargo terminal, Riga Ropax Terminal, will open in Riga Freeport.

On 28 July 2020, the reconstruction of the railway infrastructure started on the section Zemitāni-Rīga-Krasta - the historic railway station "Rīgas Krasta" was disconnected from the common railway network.

A newly signed Memorandum of Understanding between Ports of Stockholm, the Freeport of Riga Authority and Riga Ropax Terminal is the driving force behind a joint application for EU funding to reduce the impact of port activities on the environment and climate in the areas surrounding the passenger terminals in the capital cities.

This year, a record number of ships have registered for the season in Riga.

If you are the owner of water transport and want to rent a parking space for your vehicle, the Yacht Club pier in Andrejosta, Eksporta iela 1d, will certainly help you.

The third edition of the Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA3), running from 15 July – 2 October, led by Chief Curator René Block and titled Exercises in Respect, will feature 63 artists in the main exhibition in Andrejsala. Working alongside Block, Nico Anklam is acting as associate curator for RIBOCA3. He will also develop the public program for RIBOCA3.

The film's premiere already took place in London, Riga, Berlin, Moscow, Paris and Basel. The main venue of the film is Andrejsala, where RIBOCA2 took place in 2020. Now the world sees the potential of Andrejsala.

Today is the opening of the Second Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA2). This year the biennial will take place solely in Andrejsala, a Riga Port City (RPC) territory. We, RPC team, are delighted to have this opportunity – offer our territory for the exhibition, handing it over to RIBOCA team and this year’s curator Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel.

ANDREJSALA – BETWEEN RUIN AND RENOVATION A partially abandoned peninsula, Andrejsala is somewhere between a ruin and a renovation site, mirroring the current state of the world. It stands as a metaphor for the ruptures of modern utopias, Soviet ideals and capitalist hopes, and resonates with our current challenges: to find ways of inhabiting the world in a new epoch while acknowledging these shared heritages.

With development at Andrejsala on the territory of Riga Port City underway, SJSC Latvijas Dzelzceļš started a reconstruction of railway infrastructure in the Zemitāni-Rīga-Krasta section on July 28. As a result, the port’s historic coal railway station Rīgas Krasta has been disconnected from the rail network.

With the reduction of the impact of the pandemic in the Baltic Sea countries and the lifting of travel restrictions in European countries, Tallink / Silja Line has opened a new route from Helsinki to Riga Passenger Port.

Understanding this extreme situation as a call for reinvention, the exhibition, spreading over 200,000m2 of the Tarkovskian former port district of Andrejsala in Riga, will be open to the public from 20 August - 13 September, and will be transformed into the setting for a feature- length film that will be shot during opening hours. Between a ruin and a construction site, past fallen dreams and present reality, the project, transformed into a unique experience, acknowledges the limitations and possibilities of today.

RIBOCA announces the two main venues for its second edition: the former industrial port Andrejsala (“Andrew's Island”) in Riga and the former Summer Residence of the Union of Architects of Latvia in Jūrmala.

On February 15, 2020, the dismantling of railway tracks in the center of Riga, in the territory of Riga Port City, was started. The rails have been completely dismantled today from their beginning in the southern part of Andrejosta, including the rails crossing the road.

Riga Port City has a territory for the implementation of socially significant projects, such as the national acoustic concert hall.

Does Andrejsala have the potential as a place for business, or has it been used up already? Business portal “Dienas Bizness” surveyed companies working in Andrejsala to find out their opinion on the development of this part of Riga.