Europe is undergoing a massive infrastructure makeover, designed to improve transport networks across the continent. The Trans-European Network for Transport (TEN-T) was launched in the 1990s and aims to connect Europe through a series of highways, rail lines, waterways and air routes.

The project encompasses the 27 EU countries – as well as Switzerland, Norway, Ukraine, Moldova, Turkey and the Western Balkans. One country central to the plan is Poland, which is emerging as a growing economic power in Europe. The country is set to invest a whopping £25 billion in transforming its transport infrastructure as part of the TEN-T project.

This will involve the construction of a new international airport, a high-speed rail line and a motorway as well as a transport hub called the Central Communications Port (CPK).

This new port will be built on a greenfield site covering nearly 2,600 hectares of largely rural land.

That’s double the size of London Heathrow and nearly 20% bigger than JFK international airport in New York.

It will feature an air and bus terminal, as well as a railway station, and will be located 25 miles west of Warsaw – Poland’s capital city.

The new airport alone will cost about £9 billion and will initially have two runways, which will be expanded to four.

The airport will be designed by Foster + Partners in collaboration with Buro Happold and will serve some 40 million passengers per year.

A key part of the project is the Y-line – a high-speed rail network running for 480 kilometres and connecting key cities.

It will feature the longest tunnel in the country, measuring 4.6km in length and running underneath the city of Łódź.

The line will then connect to the Czech Republic and onto the under construction Rail Baltica, creating easy links to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

The Y-line’s main hub will be located at CPK, the brain connecting the whole operation.

Finally, £480 million will be ploughed into building a new motorway interchange to access CPK.