Throughput of port Gdansk (Poland) up 6.7% to 2.574 mln t in Jan'14

In January 2014, the port of Gdansk (Poland) handled 2,574,106 t of cargo (+6.7%, year-on-year), the stevedoring company says.

Transshipment of grain climbed by 7.8% to 105,666 t, general cargo and timber – by 6.7% to 929,244 t, other bulk cargo (aggregates, sulphur, ore) – up 1.7 times to 317,048 t, coal transshipment decreased 2 times to 162,229 t, transshipment of liquid fuel fell by 17.5% to 1,059,919 t. 

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). In 2013, port of Gdansk handled 30,259,295 t of cargo.