Throughput of port Gdansk (Poland) up 15% to 13.17 mln t in Jan-May’14

In January-May 2014, the port of Gdansk (Poland) handled 13,175,428 t of cargo (+15%, year-on-year), the stevedoring company says.

Transshipment of grain climbed 1.6 times to 706,414 t, general cargo and timber – by 9.3% to 4,713,155 t, other bulk cargo (aggregates, sulphur, ore) – up 1.5 times to 1,325,031 t, coal transshipment fell 1.4 times to 1,500,460 t, transshipment of liquid fuel increased by 33.2% to 4,930,368 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.