Port of Gdansk
| Port of Gdansk | |||
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| UN / LOCODE | PLGDN | ||
| operator | Zarząd Morskiego Portu Gdańsk SA / Port of Gdansk Authority SA |
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| Port type | seaport | ||
| Total area of the port | 412.56 ha (water), 652 ha (land) | ||
| Goods handled |
Containers , bulk goods, etc. general cargo : 21.5 million t |
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| Container (TEU) | almost 2 million TEU (2018) | ||
| website | www.portgdansk.pl | ||
| Geographic information | |||
| place | Danzig | ||
| Voivodeship | Pomeranian Voivodeship | ||
| Country | Poland | ||
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 22 '59 " N , 18 ° 39' 54" E | ||
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The port of Gdańsk ( Polish Port Gdańsk ) is the largest port in Poland and the fourth largest on the Baltic Sea .
Location and facilities
The port of Danzig is located on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea. According to plans by the European Union , the port plays an important role in Transport Corridor No. 6 , which connects the Scandinavian countries with southern and central Europe.
The port has a land area of 652 hectares and a water area of 412 hectares. The total length of all quays is 23.9 kilometers. Ships with a draft of up to 10.2 m can dock in the inner harbor and up to 15 m in the outer harbor basin. The port of Gdańsk is ice-free all year round. There are two container terminals , the Deepwater Container Terminal (DCT Gdansk) , which has been in the north port since 2007, and the older Gdansk Container Terminal (GTK) in the inner port . There is also an infrastructure for heavy goods handling, bulk goods and other goods. Passenger ferries , RoRo ships and car transporters also dock here .
The port has a part used by the Polish Navy .
Inner harbor
The Gdansk Container Terminal (Gdański Terminal Kontenerowy = GTK), located in the north-western area of the Dead Vistula , has only been of minor importance since the DCT in the north port was commissioned. The water depth limits access to ships with a draft of 9.2 meters and a deadweight of less than 20,000 tons. The repair yard Gdańska Stocznia Remontowa SA is located on the island of Ostrów .
North harbor
The Port Północny (north port) is the larger and more modern part of the Gdańsk port and is located directly on the Baltic Sea coast on Wyspa Portowa (port island). The quayside facilities for handling liquid gas, coal, fuels and other goods are located here. The Deepwater Container Terminal Gdansk (DCT Gdansk) located in the south-east offers two berths with a depth of 16.5 m on a 650 m long quay in the current (2014) expansion stage (DCT 1) . By 2016, the DCT 2 with a quay length of 650 m will be built to the west of it. The annual handling capacity will then be 3 million TEU .
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In 2018, a handling record was set with a total of 49.03 million tons of goods handled. Of these, 21.58 million t were general cargo including wood, 15.51 million t liquid , 7.18 million t coal and 3.92 million t other bulk cargo . In 2017 it was a total of 40.6 million t (2014: 32.2 million t, 2012: 26.9 million t, 2008 17.78 million t). The handling capacity in 2010 in the inner port was 11.5 million tons and in the north port 48.5 million tons. The number of TEUs handled by containers was 1.2 million TEU in 2014, and almost 2 million TEU in 2018.
The modal split for hinterland traffic in 2016 was 31% rail (+ 3% compared to the previous year), 29% truck traffic (+ 5%) and 40% in pipelines (- 8%).
Passenger and ferry traffic
From the port, ships operate mainly on the tourist routes towards Westerplatte , Sopot and Gdynia . There is also a regular ferry service between Nynäshamn in Sweden and Gdansk.
history
In the 1930s there was an ammunition depot of the Polish Navy on the Westerplatte peninsula off the Danzig harbor . The bombardment of the Polish ammunition depot there by the German Navy on September 1, 1939 is considered to be the beginning of the Second World War .
literature
- Otto Münsterberg : The trade of Danzig: an attempt to portray the development of a German seaside town in the east . Berlin: Simion, 1906
Web links
- Port website (Polish, English, Chinese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Port of Gdansk Authority SA: About Port , accessed on December 17, 2011 (English, Polish)
- ↑ Gdansk is scratching the 2 million TEU mark . In: Hansa , issue 3/2019, p. 83
- ↑ Growing hub in the Baltic Sea region . In: Daily port report of October 17, 2014, special supplement container , p. 4/5
- ↑ Cover figures 2007–2018 portdansk.pl, accessed on June 3, 2019 (English)
- ↑ Peter Kleinort: Gdansk handles more goods . In: Daily port report of January 14, 2015, p. 13
- ↑ Gazoport liquid gas terminal is delayed . In: Daily port report of October 2, 2013, p. 13
- ^ Frank Binder: Port of Danzig: More hinterland traffic . In: Daily port report of March 8, 2017, p. 15