Gdańsk among the largest container terminals in the world. It supports two lines of ships Asia-Europe – Money.pl

The Deepwater Container Terminal in the port of Gdansk on Tuesday evening received the ship “Hong Kong Express” with a capacity of over 13 thousand . TEU ocean G6 Alliance. This is the first call of the vessel in Gdansk in the Far East service.

The G6 Alliance is composed of: APL, Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM), Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL), Hapag-Lloyd, Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) and Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL). G6 Alliance has extended one of its sites – Loop 7 and joined to it port of Gdansk. They have it operate the unit with a capacity of approx. 13 thousand. TEU (TEU – a unit capacity of an equivalent volume of container of 20 feet). May affect container ships to Gdansk every week.

The Loop 7 is the Far East, weekly service G6 Alliance, which wraps for six consecutive European ports: Rotterdam, Hamburg, Gdansk, Gothenburg, Antwerp and Southampton. After crossing the Indian Ocean, the service stops in Qingdao, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Yantian and Singapore.

Director for DCT. Commercial Dominik Landa said that the operation of the new line is primarily an increase in cargo handling and expanding customer groups terminal . – Together with the decision of the G6 Alliance, we have six new customers in DCT – he added.

He admitted that for the moment it is difficult to estimate the extent of the increase of cargo, which will be using the new service.

He recalled that from the beginning of a strategic partner of the terminal was the Danish Maersk Line container operator who first started a few years ago, a direct connection to the ocean from Asia, namely Maersk Line’s AE10. As part of this service initially affected vessels with a capacity of more than 15.5 thousand. TEU, since August 2013 years are already units with a capacity of 18 thousand. TEU.

He gave that out, outside operators within the G6 Alliance, customers of the terminal are: Maersk Line and MSC (within the Alliance 2M) and United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) and Hamburg Süd, which DCT began working in the previous month.

Landa said that from January to July this year. in the terminal handled 597 thousand. 406 TEUs, compared with the same period last year a decrease of 17 proc.- handling the crisis in Russia, especially in the first quarter of the year particularly touched us, but in recent months, the situation began to improve and by the end of the year we should reach a level comparable with handling last year – he explained. In 2014. DCT reloaded 1 million 188 thousand. TEU.

The TPD is currently building a second transshipment terminal T2, whereby its handling capacity by the end of 2016. Is expected to double, rise from the current 1.5 million to 3 million TEU a year.

Thanks, among others, good access from the sea that provided by the approach channel with a depth of 17 m and 16.5 m along the waterfront and the lack of freezing, DCT Gdańsk is a natural hub for containerized cargo turnover in Central and Eastern Europe. The first unit was adopted by DCT Gdańsk in June 2007. In 2013. At DCT for the first time to handle over 1 million TEUs, making Gdańsk was in the hundred largest container terminals in the world.

The owner of the DCT is the company registered in Poland, most of which belongs to Global Infrastructure Fund II, a fund managed by the Macquarie Group of Companies, headquartered in Australia.

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