Port of Gdansk throughput up 12.5% to 11.966 mln t in 4M’16

In January-April 2016, Port of Gdansk (Poland) handled 11,966,354 t of cargo (+12.5%, year-on-year), the stevedoring company says.

Transshipment of grain fell by 29.6% to 421,960 t, transshipment of general cargo and timber climbed by 24.1% to 4,639,997 t, other bulk cargo (aggregates, sulphur, ore) – up almost 1.4 times to 1,383,257 t, coal - up over 1.6 times to 1,683,135 t, liquid fuel – down 9.9% to 3,838,500 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.