Containerships switching Poland calls to new DCT Gdansk terminal

Finnish shipping company Containerships has today switched its Polish calls to the new DCT Gdansk deepwater container terminal.

Initially, two weekly Containerships services will make the move, one linking Gdansk with St. Petersburg in Russia and ports in Sweden and Finland, and another connecting Gdansk with Teesport in the United Kingdom.

Containerships managers recognized the potential of DCT Gdansk even before it was completed, but theirs is a very slick and demanding operation, said DCT Gdansk's General Manager Fred Kamperman. They needed to see that DCT Gdansk could deliver the levels of service they require in order to maintain schedule integrity. Now, with some months experience handling customers such as the feeder operators Team Lines and IMCL, we have been able to prove ourselves and Containerships felt confident about making the switch.

Helsinki-based Containerships operates 11 vessels in the Baltic Sea region and is a joint venture between Finnish Container Finance Ltd. Oy and Icelandic transportation company Eimskip.

DCT Gdansk SA, a Polish registered company majority owned by Global Infrastructure Fund, part of Australia's Macquarie Bank, opened for business in June. The first phase development of the new terminal has been completed so that it now operates with three post-Panamax ship-to-shore cranes and five rubber-tired gantry cranes and offers 16.5 meters water depth alongside. A second phase of development will be brought online according to demand that could double the facility's annual capacity to 1 million TEUs.

Planning is also well advanced for a major logistics park to be constructed close to the DCT Gdansk site.

Source:American Shipper