Throughput of port Gdansk (Poland) up 5.4% to 29.178 mln t in Jan-Nov’14

In January-November 2014, the port of Gdansk (Poland) handled 29,178,933 t of cargo (+5.4%, year-on-year), the stevedoring company says.

Transshipment of grain climbed by 9% to 1,464,962 t, general cargo and timber – by 7% to 10,332,511 t, other bulk cargo (aggregates, sulphur, ore) – up 31.6% to 3,200,509 t, coal transshipment fell by29.4% to 3,113,407 t, transshipment of liquid fuel increased by 12.4% to 11,067,544 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.