Gdansk posts 5pc increase to 2.09 million TEU in 2021

THE Port of Gdansk has increased its container volume five per cent year on year to record 2.09 million TEU in 2021, reports Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide.

DCT Gdansk hit two million TEU 2019, just before the Covid scare, the first Baltic terminal to surpass the two million TEU mark.

"The result once again shows that we are a true Baltic transport hub and gateway to Central and Eastern Europe," said DCT Gdansk CEO Charles Baker.

In July 2021, the Port of Gdansk announced that DCT Gdansk will build a third deep-water terminal, Baltic Hub 3, which when completed will increase DCT's handling capacity by 1.5 million TEU to 4.5 million TEU per year.

The EUR450 million (US$510.6 million) investment will see the construction of a quay (located to the east of the existing T1 quay) with a length of 717 metres, a depth of 18 metres and a 36-hectare site to open in 2024.

DCT is the only deep-water terminal on the Baltic Sea with a berth depth of 17 metres, enabling it to receive the largest containerships in the world. The terminal contributed towards Port of Gdansk's first place ranking of container ports in the Baltic Sea in the first half of 2021.

In April last year, DCT also broke the record of 15 million TEU handled since the beginning of its operations in 2007, and in July it recorded the record number of TEUs handled in one ship call (20,207 TEU). In November, the terminal handled a record number of ships in a month (70).

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2022/1/28 22:33:54