Throughput of port Gdansk (Poland) down 6% to 5.002 mln t in Jan-Feb'14

In January-February 2014, the port of Gdansk (Poland) handled 5,002,243 t of cargo (-6%, year-on-year), the stevedoring company says.

Transshipment of grain climbed by 38.6% to 262,308 t, general cargo and timber – by 11.4% to 1,883,320, other bulk cargo (aggregates, sulphur, ore) – up 1.8 times to 579,864 t,  coal transshipment decreased 2.7 times to 313,968 t, transshipment of liquid fuel fell by 13.8% to 1,962,783 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, the port handled 30,259,295 t of cargo.