Throughput of port Gdansk (Poland) up 5.2% to 23.579 mln t in Jan-Sep’14

In January-September 2014, the port of Gdansk (Poland) handled 23,579,346 t of cargo (+5.2%, year-on-year), the stevedoring company says.

Transshipment of grain climbed 1.2 times to 1,193,970 t, general cargo and timber – by 5.1% to 8,298,988 t, other bulk cargo (aggregates, sulphur, ore) – up 37.6% to 2,705,150 t, coal transshipment fell by 24.8% to 2,781,866 t,  transshipment of liquid fuel increased by 9.4% to 8,599,372 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.