On 19 March 2013, with the participation of many distinguished guests, the heads of PGA SA and DCT GDANSK SA have officially signed a contract regarding the lease of another 27 hectares of land owned by the port, PGA informs.
The document was signed by Jerzy Melaniuk, who has single-handedly formed the PGA SA Management Board since December of the last year, Jerzy Lebiedz, Head of PGA SA Investment Projects Coordination Department and PGA SA Legal Representative, as well as Adam Zolnowski, "DCT GDANSK" SA Strategic and Financial Officer and Jedrzej Mierzewski, "DCT GDANSK" SA Operations Officer. The contract they signed opens up new perspectives not only to the port, but also to the entire city.
The agreement comes as a follow-up to the Contract made on 27 January 2004 regarding the lease of a real property, and the construction and operation of a container terminal. The common intention shared by the management boards of the both companies signing the Contract is to make the DCT terminal suited as soon as possible to handling world's biggest container carriers - including the ones that are now leaving the dockyards in the Far East as well as those being created on drawing boards. A new, over 600-metre long quay has been designed to ensure 16.5 metres draught while top standard services will be provided to ships by means of 7 Super-Post-Panamax cranes with an extension arm equaling 25 rows of containers. An overall annual target capacity of the newly-built infrastructure has been estimated at 4 million TEU.
The seaport in Gdansk handles cargo worth about PLN 100 billion and provides work places to 40 thousand people. The Deepwater Container Terminal (DCT), with its astounding throughput growth attained already in the fifth year of its operation, has become the second biggest container terminal in the Baltic Sea. According to the DCT analysts, the annual throughput capacity of one million TEU is not sufficient enough for this hub to handle the increased trade exchange expected in the Baltic region.