Gdansk Container Port Second Terminal Expansion

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DCT Gdansk started operations in 2007, with one deep-water berth equipped with three Ship-to-Shore (STS) cranes and a total annual capacity of 500 000 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent). In 10 years the terminal has grown 6-fold as at the end of 2016 Terminal 2 opened, lifting total capacity to 3 million TEU, making the facility the largest in the Baltic Sea. Today DCT Gdansk has 1.3km of deep-water quay-line, eleven STS cranes, and handles over 460 vessels per year, including over 100 direct calls from Asia by the largest container vessels in the world. A expansion programmed, announced in October 2017, will include: On the berth it will include two new STS cranes, which will be supported by 5 more RTGs and additional yard area. The gate complex will be fully optimized and automated. A significant upgrade in rail capacity, with a fifty-percent increase in rail lines to six sidings, all of which will be extended to 750m – currently the longest possible in Europe.

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