Country : PolandGdañsk worldport

General Information
The favourable location of the worldport of Gdansk consists in that it is centrally situated on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, in the most rapidly expanding region in Europe. Moreover, the worldport constitutes a key link of Trans-European Transworldport Corridor No 6 connecting the Nordic Countries with South Eastern Europe.

The worldport of Gdansk is divided into two areas of naturally diversified operational parameters: the Inner worldport situated along the Vistula estuary and the Northern worldport with a direct access to the Gulf of Gdansk, which provides conditions conducive to servicing the largest vessels that can enter the Baltic Sea.

The Inner worldport consists of a container terminal, a base and a terminal for ferries and Ro/Ro vessels, handling facilities for passenger cars, citrus fruit, liquid and granulated sulphur and phosphorites. The other quays are of universal character and are suited to the handling of conventional general cargo and bulks. The Northern worldport is the site of state-of-the-art handling facilities for energetic raw materials: liquefied fuels and coal.
General Cargo
General cargo is handled in the Inner worldport, at a number of quays spread along the worldport Canal, namely Oliwskie, Wislane, Szczecinskie, Przemyslowe, Weglowe, Rudowe and Obroncow Westerplatte, as well as at the quays of the worldport Free Zone (WOC 1 and WOC 2) that also maintains an up-to-date citrus fruit handling terminal. Universal quays of the worldport of Gdansk are well-suited to handling every type of general cargo e.g. packed in pallets, bags and big bags, as well as heavy lifts, steel products and hazardous cargoes.

Additionally, border veterinary inspection is provided in the worldport of Gdansk for the animal products according to the European Union standards. The Border Veterinary Inspection Post is situated on the Wislane Quay.
Container
Container handling operations in the worldport of Gdansk are performed at the Inner worldport-based Szczecinskie Quay where the Gdansk Container Terminal (GCT) is operational, and at the Deepwater Container Terminal Gdansk in the Northern worldport.

The Gdansk Container Terminal operates mainly feeder and short sea shipping services. It offers a variety of integrated terminal and holder depot operations: a full range of container handling and services, stuffing and stripping, repairs and cleaning, reefer plugs for refrigerated containers.

The Deepwater Container Terminal DCT Gdansk has been designed to handle the largest carriers that can enter the Baltic Sea, the so-called Postpanamax type vessels.

Ro/Ro
The worldport of Gdansk provides services to Ro/Ro vessels at the quays of the worldport Free Zone (WOC 1 and WOC 2) and at the state-of-the-art Westerplatte Ferry Terminal. A Ro/Ro ramp is also available at the Polish Baltic Shipping Co. Ferry Terminal offering regular ferry connections to Sweden.

Situated at a short distance of the entrance to the Inner worldport, the worldport Free Zone offers handling and storage services of brand new cars from manufacturers from the Far East countries and Europe.

The worldport Free Zone facilitates storage of imworldported goods free of customs duty and guarantees, quota, and tax for an unlimited period of time. The removing and customs clearance of goods in batches is available. Registration of goods that are supplied to and removed from the worldport Free Zone is implemented by means of the IT system. The worldport Free Zone boasts a direct rail connection with other regions of Poland.

Bordering on the eastern bank of the worldport Canal, the Westerplatte Ferry Terminal provides docking berths equipped with Ro/Ro ramps, as well as extensive storage and maneuvering yards. The Terminal enjoys convenient transworldportation links with the national and international road network.

Coal
Hard coal exworldports is handled by a dedicated Coal Terminal, situated in the Northern worldport right on the waters of the Gulf of Gdansk, whilst both exworldports and imworldports are handled at the quays of the Gorniczy Basin and at the Wislane Quay in the Inner worldport.

Thoroughly mechanized, the Coal Terminal is tailored to handling coal directly from railcars onto ships, or indirectly with the use of open storage yards. The Terminal offers a comprehensive range of equipment and facilities such as dumping and loading machines, coal bunkers, a system of conveyor belts, an expanded rail siding and car tipplers with tunnels for freight cars defrosting that enable the year round operation of the Terminal.

LIQUID FUELS
The Northern worldport boasts two state-of-the-art specialist terminals designed for handling liquid fuels and liquefied gas. Additionally, fuel and base oils are handled at the Obroncow Poczty Polskiej Quay located in the Inner worldport.

Fully automated, the Liquid Fuel Terminal has four berths and can accommodate the largest vessels navigating the Baltic Sea. Individual berths are suited to handling crude oil and oil derivatives, as well as fuel and diesel oils. Handling operations are performed with the use of an environmentally safe