By Mike Wackett

(The Loadstar) — Poland’s Port of Gdansk Authority is to tender for a brand new container and basic cargo deepwater port in a position to accommodate the largest ships on the planet.

Port of Gdansk president Dorota Raben advised The Loadstar tenders on a construct, function, handle concession foundation can be invited from firms on the finish of subsequent 12 months to develop the Outer Port Construction challenge.

Ms Raben stated the challenge would, in the end, make sure the continued growth of cargo dealing with capability at Gdansk and reinforce its significance as the biggest container hub on the Baltic.

She stated the port of Gdansk would deal with a document 35m tonnes of cargo this 12 months – 3m tonnes greater than in 2014 – and that it was the authority’s responsibility to have a strategic plan for the continued development in commerce predicted from Poland’s booming economic system.

The president stated there had already been “significant” curiosity from Chinese traders within the idea of a brand new mega-port within the Gulf of Gdansk, which she argued would remodel it into a significant fifth-generation port and a logistics hub for not solely Poland, however all of Eastern Europe.

The Polish authorities is investing appreciable sums of its personal, in addition to EU grants, on enhancing the nation’s highway and rail community, whereas Port of Gdansk, along with the town municipality, is busy modernising and increasing the highway and rail community within the outer port.

Indeed, Poland has witnessed a staggering addition of two,400 km of motorways and categorical roads prior to now 15 years, particularly for the reason that nation joined the EU in 2004.

In addition, a lot of the forms regarding customs clearance at Poland’s ports, inherited from the pre-1989 period when it was a part of the Soviet bloc, had been eliminated, stated Ms Raben. Shippers with AEO standing might usually anticipate customs clearance inside 24 hours, she claimed.

She added that there have been additionally common exchanges of information between Polish and Chinese customs authorities.

Ms Raben advised The Loadstar that the choice to tender for a brand new port wouldn’t in any approach detract from the event at DCT Gdansk on the alternative aspect of the town.

The Macquarie-owned facility is about to open a second container terminal within the latter a part of 2016 to spice up its annual dealing with capability to 3-4m teu and, importantly, allow it to deal with two ultra-large container vessels on the similar time.

DCT Gdansk has seen a ten% dip in throughput this 12 months, to round 1.1m teu, because of the Russian financial disaster, however nonetheless prior to now 12 months has secured weekly calls from each the 2M and G6 alliances, in addition to further enterprise from companions within the O3 alliance.

Ms Raben stated a second container terminal was “essential” for DCT’s enterprise development, and that the brand new outer port was equally mandatory if Poland was to stay on the high of the record for producers and entrepreneurs searching for new funding alternatives.

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