The Port of Gdańsk is a

seaport A port is a maritime facility comprising one or more wharves or loading areas, where ships load and discharge cargo and passengers. Although usually situated on a sea coast or estuary, ports can also be found far inland, such as H ...

located on the southern coast of

Gdańsk Bay Gdańsk Bay or the Gulf of Gdańsk ( pl, Zatoka Gdańska; csb, Gduńskô Hôwinga; russian: Гданьская бухта, Gdan'skaja bukhta, and german: Danziger Bucht) is a southeastern bay of the Baltic Sea. It is named after the adjacent por ...

in the city of Gdańsk, extending along the

Vistula The Vistula (; pl, Wisła, ) is the longest river in Poland and the ninth-longest river in Europe, at in length. The drainage basin, reaching into three other nations, covers , of which is in Poland. The Vistula rises at Barania Góra in ...

estuary

Martwa Wisła The Martwa Wisła (; german: Tote Weichsel; both literally "dead Vistula") is a river, one of the branches of the Vistula, flowing through the city of Gdańsk in northern Poland. It got its name when this branch of the river became increasingly ...

(Dead Vistula), Port Channel and Kashubia Canal. It is one of the largest seaports on the

Baltic Sea The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden and the North and Central European Plain. The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and ...

. The Port of Gdańsk is divided into two parts, the Inner and Exterior Port.

Inner Port

*Port of Gdańsk Cargo Logistics S.A. - universal port operator providing handling and storage services for bulk and general cargo *Gdańsk Container Terminal – providing feeder services *Ferry terminals **Polferries **Westerplatte *Phosphates terminal *Liquid and bulk sulphur terminal *Fruit handling terminal in the Port Free Zone The Port of Gdańsk has specialized cargo handling equipment and port infrastructure, enabling among others the handling of grain, fertilizers, lumber, ore, steel and containers, as well as ro-ro vessel servicing.

Exterior — Northern Port

Northern Port is located directly in the water basins of

. The largest vessels with a capacity of up to and draft to 15 m that enter the

can be serviced here. *Coal terminal * Naftoport — crude oil, heating oils, fuels terminal *LPG terminal * Deepwater Container Terminal

Trans-shipments

*1978 – 2.8 million ton *2000 – 16.5 million ton *2001 – 17.8 million ton *2002 – 17.4 million ton *2003 – 21.3 million ton *2004 – 23.3 million ton *2005 – 23.3 million ton *2006 – 22.4 million ton *2007 – 19.8 million ton *2008 – 17.8 million ton *2009 – 18.9 million ton *2010 – 27.2 million ton *2011 – 25.3 million ton *2012 – 26.9 million ton *2013 - 30.0 million ton *2014 - 32.3 million ton *2015 - 35.9 million ton *2016 - 37.3 million ton *2017 - 40.6 million ton Cargo statistics
portgdansk.pl *2018 - 49.0 million ton

References

External links

Port of Gdańsk website
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Inner Port

Exterior — Northern Port

Trans-shipments

See also

References

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