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 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 (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 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. 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 +YearCargo tonsContainers TEUContainers tonsPassengers2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Gallery
See also Gdańsk Shipyard Ports of the Baltic Sea
References
External links
Port of Gdańsk website Baltic Hub Container Terminal website AIS live vessel traffic in Port of Gdańsk