The Port of Gdańsk is a seaport located on the southern coast of Gdańsk Bay

Gdansk Bay

Gdańsk Bay or the Bay of Gdańsk or Danzig Bay is a southeastern bay of the Baltic Sea. It is named after the adjacent port city of Gdańsk in Poland and is sometimes referred to as a gulf.-Geography:...

 in the city of Gdańsk

Gdansk

Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay , in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the...

, extending along the Vistula

Vistula

The Vistula is the longest and the most important river in Poland, at 1,047 km in length. The watershed area of the Vistula is , of which lies within Poland ....

 estuary Martwa Wisła (Dead Vistula), Port Channel and Kashubia Canal. It is one of the largest seaports on the Baltic Sea

Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is a brackish mediterranean sea located in Northern Europe, from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 20°E to 26°E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Danish islands. It drains into the Kattegat by way of the Øresund, the Great Belt and...

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

Inner Port

• Port of Gdansk Cargo Logistics S.A. - universal port operator providing handling and storage services for bulk and general cargo
• Gdansk Container Terminal – providing feeder services
• Ferry terminals
  • Polferries
  • Westerplatte
• Phosphates terminal
• Liquid and bulk sulphur terminal
• Fruit handling terminal in the Port Free Zone

In the Port of Gdańsk is 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 Gdańsk Bay

Gdansk Bay

Gdańsk Bay or the Bay of Gdańsk or Danzig Bay is a southeastern bay of the Baltic Sea. It is named after the adjacent port city of Gdańsk in Poland and is sometimes referred to as a gulf.-Geography:...

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

Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is a brackish mediterranean sea located in Northern Europe, from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 20°E to 26°E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Danish islands. It drains into the Kattegat by way of the Øresund, the Great Belt and...

 can be serviced here.

• Coal terminal
• Naftoport
  Naftoport
  Naftoport Ltd is a company which manages crude oil shipment and deliveries. It is located in Gdansk, Poland. Naftoport Ltd was established in June 1991 by several Polish oil companies and Marine Commercial Port in Gdansk...
  
   — crude oil, heating oils, fuels terminal
• LPG terminal
• Deepwater Container Terminal

Trans-shipments

• 1978 – 27,7 million ton record
• 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

External links

• Port of Gdańsk website
• AIS
  Automatic Identification System
  The Automatic Identification System is an automatic tracking system used on ships and by Vessel traffic services for identifying and locating vessels by electronically exchanging data with other nearby ships and AIS Base stations...
  
    live vessel traffic in Port of Gdańsk
  • Google Earth
    Google Earth
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