Port of Gdansk throughput up 13.5% to over 26.78 mln t in 9M’15

In January-September 2015, Port of Gdansk (Poland) handled 26,776,000 t of cargo (+13.5%, year-on-year), the stevedoring company says.

Transshipment of grain fell by 3.7% to 1,150,753 t, transshipment of general cargo and timber was flat, year-on-year, at 7,483,533 t, other bulk cargo (aggregates, sulphur, ore) – up 1.9% to 8,463,945 t, coal – up 28.4% to 3,573,439 t, liquid fuel – up 29.3% to 11,127,320 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.