Gdańsk dominates shipping consignments

An analysis done by Dziennik Gazeta Prawna shows that the city of Gdańsk is quickly becoming the leader in shipment consignments. The Polish ports are experiencing high growth year-on-year with an average of 12 percent annual increase in transshipments. Gdynia's BCT terminal has shown a first half of the year increase of about 25 percent, reaching 235,000 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units) containers. Szczecin is also not far behind with the Deutsche Bahn's Port Szczecin showing a 22 percent increase in transshipment. Gdańsk-based GCT has shown an 18 percent increase in the H1 of 2014 to an amount of 185,000 TEU. The leader is DCT of Gdańsk, which despite of only 7 percent growth in the first half of the year is the undisputed leader in transshipment volume in Poland with 610,000 containers serviced. The national budget generates PLN 1.7 billion in tax and custom tariff revenue from DCT alone. DCT is working together with the world's largest shipper, Maersk, which is planning on expanding its offer by adding a shipping connection with Latin America. DCT will invest in widening its port shoreline and capacity to be able to service 4 mln TEU by 2016. All of the Polish ports combined look to be on pace to break records in transshipments, which should surpass 2 mln TEUs received by the Baltic ports.