The port of Gdansk is the sixth largest port on the Baltic sea – Onet.pl

As reported by ZMPG, investments for the modernization of the line 226, and the construction of a new railway bridge on the Dead Vistula changed the face of the Port. They are an important milestone in the further development of the position of the port on the logistics map of the country and East Central Europe.

– do Not be surprised that an effective infrastructure access to the port was one of the most anticipated investment of the last period, for the Port of Gdansk in the coming years will strive to further strengthen its position on the Baltic sea and throughout East Central Europe. No new access infrastructure such plans, of course, would not have been possible, noted.

Line 226 and a railway bridge over the Dead Vistula, which only reduces the movement of trains in prawobrzeżnego the territory of the port of Gdansk, including in the development głębokowodnej part of the it infrastructure access to the port through which each year goes to 95%. all trains routed to/from the port. Last year, the average traffic on this route was up to 500 cars per day. Among them, the vast majority, because 46 percent. were the wagons with coal, 37 percent. -loaded drobnicowymi, including primarily containers. More than 15%. trips had to train with other bulk cargoes, including chemicals and kruszywami.

Huge dynamics in rail transport in the Port of Gdansk, which in 2015 reached the level of +41%. when you consider the tonnage delivered by rail to/from port and +46%. in annual terms, the number of processed in the port of cars is a result showing that rail transport operation of the port is important. In the past year, the share of Railways in the total cargo handling at the port rose by 28 percent. and transport rurociągowym was widely used by the transport industry in Gdansk. If all the ground services of cargo in the port to disable the transport, transmission (pipeline) fuel, the share of Railways in odwozie and dowozie of goods at the port sięgnąłby to 54 percent.

the Turn is the optimal branch in the transportation sign in the far stations, and such each year arrives in Gdansk, reports ZMPG. – Often przewożonymi by rail the goods are bulk cargo, particularly coal. Lately in the Port of Gdansk is increasingly supported on port quays. To remind, last year at the Port of Gdansk przeładowano 4.5 million tons of coal, which was second best in the last decade, as a result, in this area, ” he adds.

rail Transport is also increasingly used for intermodal transport, where most packages are transported skonteneryzowane. The port of Gdansk is currently the largest Polish container port and the second largest in the Baltic, records, still a record number of containers at the berths of the port. For the first 8 months of this year, the number of containers in the Port of Gdansk rose to 27% compared to the previous year and 3% compared to the record 2014. Such dynamics of growth directly influences the increase in the number of containers in circulation ground transportation, including the increase of transportation by rail.

the management of the Port appreciates also recently devoted to the exploitation of new road infrastructure. We are talking about on the road tunnel under the Dead Vistula, which is an important addition to the range of the port and strengthen its competitive position in the market.