Throughput of port Gdansk (Poland) up 4.6% to 26.489 mln t in Jan-Oct’14

In January-October 2014, the port of Gdansk (Poland) handled 26,489,411 t of cargo (+4.6%, year-on-year), the stevedoring company says.

Transshipment of grain climbed by 9.8% to 1,290,930 t, general cargo and timber – by 4.9% to 9,234,020 t, other bulk cargo (aggregates, sulphur, ore) – up 36% to 2,957,668 t, coal transshipment fell by 27.6% to 2,974,493 t, transshipment of liquid fuel increased by 10.7% to 10,032,300 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.