Throughput of Gdansk port up to 9,328,263 tonnes in Jan-Apr’13
In January-April, 2013, stevedoring companies of the port of Gdansk handled 9,328,263 tonnes of cargo including 3,241,025 tonnes of liquid bulk cargo, 1,566,271 tonnes of coal, 345,921 tonnes of grain, 3,501,032 tonnes of general cargo and 674,014 of other cargo, the port statistics says.
The port of Gdansk is a major international transportation hub situated in the central part of the southern Baltic coast. Besides handling bulk cargoes (oil, coal, metal ores) the port provides a number of line services linking it with the ports of the Baltic Sea and Western Europe (primarily ferry, construction and ro-ro lines).