Port of Gdansk throughput up 15.5% to over 6 mln t in Jan-Feb'16

In January-February 2016, Port of Gdansk (Poland) handled 6,035,984 t of cargo (+15.5%, year-on-year), the stevedoring company says.

Transshipment of grain fell by 28% to 222,999 t, transshipment of general cargo and timber climbed by 27.2% to 2,262,337 t, other bulk cargo (aggregates, sulphur, ore) – up almost 1.5 times to 674,525 t, coal – up over 1.6 times to 794,515 t, liquid fuel – down 5% to 2,081,608 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 2015, the port handled 35.91 mln t of cargo.