Port of Gdansk throughput up 0.6% to 3.03 mln t in January 2017

In January 2017, Port of Gdansk (Poland) handled 3.03 mln t of cargo (+0.6%, year-on-year), the stevedoring company says.

Transshipment of grain 130,273 t, general cargo and timber 1.28 mln t, other bulk cargo (aggregates, sulphur, ore) – 210,728 t, coal – 191,680 t, liquid fuel –1,218,351 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 2016, the port handled 37,288,969 t of cargo.