The longest ever container ship arrived in port of Gdynia

MSC Charleston, the longest container ship in the operational history of the Gdynia port arrived in Gdynia on Friday. The vessel is 324 meters long and is capable of transporting nearly 8,100 TEUs (20-foot-long container). MSC Charleston departed from Lithuania and will head to Antwerp, Belgium, after reloading 1,500 containers in Gdynia. The ship is being served by Bałtycki Terminal Kontenerowy (BTC) in Gdynia. The port of Gdynia reloaded 161,459 TEUs by end-May 2015 and 475,000 TEUs in 2014, a 20 percent increase compared with 2013.