A specialist vessel designed to service the waterway through the Vistula Spit arrived in Poland from Finland on June 12. The specialist vessel, which will join the fleet of the Maritime Office in Gdynia, will also be used to maintain approach channels to seaports to a depth of 18 meters.

The vessel was built by the Finnish shipyard Tyovene Oy, which also cooperated with companies from the Netherlands on this project. The contract also included the delivery of a system of dredging pipelines. This equipment will be delivered together with transport containers and an anchoring system for the tip intended for connection to the dredger's unloading system. The dredger was launched in September 2023.

The Ministry of Infrastructure announced that thanks to the use of this vessel for work related to servicing the waterway, in two years large ships with a length of 100 meters and a draft of 4.5 meters will be able to enter the port in Elbląg.

Ursa docked at the Port of Nowy Świat. It is a suction hopper dredger, the primary task of which will be to service the new, over twenty-kilometer waterway connecting the Vistula Lagoon with the Bay of Gdańsk.

The contract for the construction of the dredger was signed in March 2022. It assumed the design, construction, equipment and delivery of the vessel to the ordering party. The value of the contract was PLN 116.5 million.