More than 37 million tonnes of cargo at the Port of Gdansk

The past year was long heralded as a special one for the Port of Gdansk, both in terms of the predicted transshipments and the investments carried out here, as well as on account of the fact that Gdansk moved up in the ranking of the largest seaports on the Baltic Sea.

All of these forecasts were realised and today it can be said with certainty that the Port of Gdansk has reached a peak, taking sixth position in the Baltic Sea in terms of overall transshipment volumes for the first time.

2016 was also the fifth year in a row in which the Port of Gdansk consolidated second place in the Baltic basin in terms of container turnover. Initially, in 2012, when Gdansk came second in the ranking for the first time, there was still a gap of 1.6 million TEU between the Polish port and the Port of St. Petersburg, the largest container port in the basin. Meanwhile, in 2015, this disparity decreased to a level of 623,000 TEU, and last year, the difference was only 445,000 TEU.

Nearly every month brought Gdansk some good news about ongoing enhancements of the port’s potential, which ultimately resulted in another record commodity turnover at the end of the year 2016 – at a level of as many as 37.3 million tonnes, i.e. nearly 4% more than in 2015.