Port of Gdansk throughput up 4.1% to 13.7 mln t Jan-May’15

In January-May 2015, Port of Gdansk (Poland) handled 8,285,664 t of cargo (+4.1%, year-on-year), the stevedoring company says.

Transshipment of grain climbed 0.5% to 710,292 t, general cargo and timber – down 4.1% to 4,524,007 t, other bulk cargo (aggregates, sulphur, ore) – down 6.9% to 1,230,099 t, coal transshipment – up 10% to 1,658,341 t, transshipment of liquid fuel - up 13.3% to 5,596,480 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 2014, the port handled 32,277,558 t of cargo.