Throughput of port Gdansk (Poland) up 8% to 17.726 mln t in Jan-July’14

In January-July 2014, the port of Gdansk (Poland) handled 17,726,234 t of cargo (+8%, year-on-year), the stevedoring company says.

Transshipment of grain climbed 1.5 times to 957,898 t, general cargo and timber – by 7.1% to 6,495,626 t, other bulk cargo (aggregates, sulphur, ore) – up 45.5% to 2,065,006 t, coal transshipment fell by 32.7% to 1,965,184 t, transshipment of liquid fuel increased by 15.9% to 6,242,520 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.