The Port of Gdańsk is a Polish

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located on the southern coast of Gdańsk Bay in the city of

Gdańsk Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic Sea, Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. With a population of 486,492, Data for territorial unit 2261000. it is Poland's sixth-largest city and principal seaport. Gdań ...

, extending along the

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estuary Martwa Wisła (Dead Vistula), Port Channel and Kashubia Canal. It is one of the largest seaports on the

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. 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

can be serviced here. * Baltic Hub Container Terminal * Coal terminal *

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— 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

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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

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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 –

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–

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– 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)

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 Container throughput statistics
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Statistics

Gallery

File:Gdansk port.JPG, Entrance to the Inner Port File:Port of Gdansk from mainmast of Fryderyk Chopin.jpg, Port of Gdańsk from mainmast of Fryderyk Chopin File:Pleiades spirit in Gdańsk (Poland).jpg, Car carrier in the entrance to the inner port, as seen from the nearby beach File:StoczniaGdanska1.jpg, Industrial landscape of the Gdańsk Shipyard

References

External links

Port of Gdańsk website

Baltic Hub Container Terminal website
* AISbr> live vessel traffic in Port of Gdańsk
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