Central Communication Port

The Central Communication Port (Polish: Centralny Port Komunikacyjny, CPK) is a planned major infrastructure project in Poland aimed at the construction of a new international airport and the development of a nationwide integrated transport network. The airport is planned to be located approximately 40 kilometres (25 mi) southwest of Warsaw, connected to a new high-speed rail network and controlled-access highway system linking it with much of the rest of the country.

Originally approved by the Polish Government in November 2017, plans for the CPK were reassessed by the winning October 15 Coalition after the 2023 Polish parliamentary election. In June 2024, the coalition government confirmed that the airport element of the project would continue. As of November 2024, construction is planned to start in 2026, with the airport opening in 2032 at the earliest. The cost of the air and rail elements of the plan are expected to be 131 billion Polish złoty (approx. €30.4 billion).

The airport will be designed by Foster + Partners in collaboration with Buro Happold. Initially the airport is planned to have two runways (4,000 m × 45 m), but will eventually be expanded to four. The combined airport and railway station is planned to serve 40 million passengers per year, double the size of Berlin Brandenburg Airport, with the long-term goal of about 100 million passengers per year.

Planned train connections from the CPK will take 15 minutes to Warsaw Central railway station, 25 minutes to Łódź Fabryczna railway station, and 2 hours to most other major Polish cities, such as Kraków, Wrocław, Poznań and Gdańsk. The construction of a high-speed train to Frankfurt (Oder) is also planned, which is to shorten the travel time on the Berlin-CPK route to under 3.5 hours. The opening of the CPK may result in the closure of Warsaw Chopin Airport; however no official decision has yet been made.