Port of Gdańsk

The Port of Gdańsk is a Polish seaport located on the southern coast of Gdańsk Bay in the city of Gdańsk, extending along the Vistula estuary Martwa Wisła, Port Channel and Kashubia Canal. It is one of the largest seaports on the Baltic Sea.

The Port of Gdańsk is divided into two parts, the Inner and Exterior Port.

Inner Port

Port of Gdańsk Cargo Logistics S.A. - universal port operator providing handling and storage services for bulk and general cargo
Gdańsk Container Terminal – providing feeder services
Ferry terminals Polferries Westerplatte
Phosphates terminal
Liquid and bulk sulphur terminal
Fruit handling terminal in the Port Free Zone

The Port of Gdańsk has specialized cargo handling equipment and port infrastructure, enabling among others the handling of grain, fertilizers, lumber, ore, steel and containers, as well as ro-ro vessel servicing.

Exterior — Northern Port

Northern Port is located directly in the water basins of Gdańsk Bay. The largest vessels with a capacity of up to 300,000 tonnes deadweight (DWT) and draft to 15 m that enter the Baltic Sea can be serviced here.

Baltic Hub Container Terminal
Coal terminal
Naftoport — crude oil, heating oils, fuels terminal
LPG terminal

Baltic Hub Container Terminal

The Baltic Hub Container Terminal 54°22′56″N 18°42′44″E/54.382321°N 18.712282°E/ 54.382321; 18.712282 (previously Deepwater Container Terminal) is located in the northern port. It was officially opened on 1 October 2007 and is the largest container terminal in Poland. It also serves as a transshipment hub for Saint Petersburg and other ports in the Baltic Sea region.[citation needed] Currently the handling capacity of the container terminal amounts to 4,500,000 TEU after 2025 modernization.

The terminal has become a springboard for the Polish Maritime Economy. In 2011, some of the largest container ships in the world at that time, the 14,700-TEU capacity Mærsk E-class container ships began regular weekly calls in Gdańsk. These included Evelyn Maersk, Emma Maersk, Eleonora Maersk, Ebba Maersk and Eugen Maersk.[citation needed] DCT Gdańsk reached its first one millionth handling in June 2011. July 2011 saw the implementation of E-SMART, a modern tool by the British company International Terminal Solutions Ltd (ITS). Maersk were the first container line which to introduce direct navigational connection (AE10) from the Far East to the Baltic region.

Sea connectivity

Maersk Line AE10 Asia–Europe–Asia (Kwangyang – Ningbo – Shanghai – Yantian – Tanjung Pelepas – Suez Canal – Rotterdam – Bremerhaven– Gdansk – Aarhus – Gothenburg – Bremerhaven – Rotterdam – Algeciras – Suez Canal – Yantian – Kwangyang)
Gdansk Finnish Gulf Service (Gdansk – Kotka – Helsinki – Gdansk)
Gdansk – St. Petersburg Service (Gdansk – St. Petersburg – Gdansk)
OOCL line LL1 Asia-North Europe Loop1 (Shanghai - Ningbo - Xiamen - Yantian - Singapore - Felixstowe - Zeebrugge - Gdansk - Wilhelmshaven - Piraeus)

Statistics

Year	Cargo tons	Containers TEU	Containers tons	Passengers
2010	27,200,000	512,000	4,900,000	164,000
2011	25,300,000	686,000	6,100,000	155,000
2012	26,900,000	929,000	7,600,000	150,000
2013	30,300,000	1,178,000	9,700,000	136,000
2014	32,300,000	1,212,000	10,400,000	138,000
2015	35,900,000	1,091,000	10,700,000	118,000
2016	37,300,000	1,299,000	13,400,000	117,000
2017	40,600,000	1,581,000	16,400,000	137,000
2018	49,000,000	1,949,000	19,900,000	148,000
2019	52,200,000	2,073,000	20,900,000	189,000
2020	48,000,000	1,924,000	20,000,000	149,000
2021	53,200,000	2,118,000	20,600,000	164,000
2022	68,200,000	2,072,000	20,000,000	195,000
2023	81,000,000	2,050,000	20,500,000	159,000
2024	77,400,000	2,249,000	20,700,000	166,000
2025	80,400,000	2,769,000	24,400,000	171,000

Gallery

Entrance to the Inner Port
Port of Gdańsk from mainmast of Fryderyk Chopin
Car carrier in the entrance to the inner port, as seen from the nearby beach
Industrial landscape of the Gdańsk Shipyard

External links

54°22′50″N 18°39′30″E/54.38056°N 18.65833°E/ 54.38056; 18.65833