Port of Gdańsk

Port of Gdańsk
A view of the Port of Gdańsk (2021)
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Location
CountryPoland
LocationGdańsk
Coordinates54°23′36″N 18°40′12″E / 54.39333°N 18.67000°E / 54.39333; 18.67000
UN/LOCODEPLGDN[1]
Details
Operated byGdańsk Seaport Authority
Owned byGovernment of Poland
Size of harbour412.56 ha (1,019.5 acres)
Land area653 ha (1,610 acres)
Size1,065.56 ha (2,633.1 acres)
Statistics
Annual cargo tonnage 81,000,000 (2023)[2]
Annual container volume 2,050,000 (2023)[2]
Passenger traffic 159,000 (2023)[2]
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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 (Dead Vistula), 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

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. Currently the handling capacity of the container terminal amounts to 3,000,000 TEU with prospect to further increase by 250,000 TEU due to conversion of additional storage area as well as container handling equipment purchase.

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. 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) [3]
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Container throughput

  • 2007 - 4,423 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU)
  • 2008 - 106,469 TEU
  • 2009 - 162,189 TEU
  • 2010 - 451,730 TEU
  • 2011 - 634,871 TEU
  • 2012 - 896,962 TEU
  • 2013 - 1,150,887 TEU
  • 2014 - 1,188,380 TEU
  • 2015 - 1,069,705 TEU
  • 2016 - 1,289,842 TEU
  • 2017 - 1,593,761 TEU

[4]

Statistics

Year Cargo tons[2] Containers TEU[2] Containers tons[2] Passengers[2]
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
  • 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

See also

References

  1. ^ "UNLOCODE (Pl) - POLAND". service.unece.org. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Facts and figures". Port of Gdansk. Retrieved 2024-03-10.
  3. ^ "OOCL".
  4. ^ Container throughput statistics, dctgdansk.pl
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