“The throughput of the port of Gdansk this year will be 35 million tonnes, an increase of three million tonnes, so we are obliged to provide enough power to grow the Polish economy,” said Dorothy Raben, GPA president.
With several Chinese investors already expressing interest in the project, Raben assured that the External Port would not impede container flows from the container terminal, DCT Gdansk, which is currently undergoing an USD324 million expansion to raise capacity to three million TEU and enable it to dock 18,000 TEU ships.
Container throughput at DCT Gdansk fell 10% in 2015 year-on-year to 1.1 million TEU due to the embargo with Russia, but overall cargo throughput was up.