An investment that will enable large container ships to enter the Port of Gdynia is set to begin soon. The Port of Gdynia Authority S.A. has announced a tender for the reconstruction of Turning Basin No. 2. Currently, the turning basins only allow vessels with a length of 300-330 meters to call at the port. As a result of the reconstruction, container ships up to 400 meters long will be able to dock. PEKAES estimates that these changes will allow it to optimize the entire supply chain and make even better use of its resources in sea freight in combination with its domestic general cargo network.
The tender for the reconstruction of Turning Basin No. 2 was announced as part of the project: “Deepening of the approach channel and internal basins of the Port of Gdynia – Stage I”. The main goal of the investment is to ensure navigational parameters that allow large container vessels serving direct connections between Europe and Asia to call at the port. In the current situation, large ships are unable to turn around in the internal basins, which keeps Gdynia as a feeder port. If the investment is completed according to plan, it is expected that this situation should change by the end of next year.
– These investments have been discussed in Gdynia for several years. Now is the last moment for them. Soon, the DCT2 terminal will be built in Gdańsk, which will further increase the competitiveness of that port. Gdynia must hurry to meet the challenges of the regional market. Customers expect low prices and increasingly faster connections with major trading partners. Only the arrival of large ships in direct services will allow for competition not only with nearby Gdańsk but also with other Baltic ports. Thanks to this reconstruction, PEKAES will be able to better optimize the entire supply chain for its customers, also by fully utilizing the resources of the domestic general cargo distribution network that we have at our disposal – comments Kajetan Jagłowski, Director of Sea and Air Freight at PEKAES SA.
Subsequent stages of the investment are planned for the years 2018-20. They are to include widening the approach channel to 280 meters and deepening it to 17 meters, as well as deepening the internal port basins to 16 meters and widening the internal entrance to 140 meters.
PEKAES specializes in sea transport to the Far and Middle East, the USA and Canada, and the Mediterranean Basin. The company cooperates with experienced and renowned partners in Poland and around the world. It has its own sea and port freight offices in Gdynia and Szczecin, which also offer full customs clearance and arrangement of marine insurance, as well as numerous additional port services domestically and abroad, including warehousing, storage, packing, packaging, and the possibility of full container load (FCL), less than container load (LCL), and unconventional cargo transport. In Gdynia, there is also a modern PEKAES warehouse, leased from the Port of Gdynia Authority S.A. Its advantage is its excellent location, as it is situated in the immediate vicinity of the Baltic Container Terminal and Gdynia Container Terminal, near the Tricity Bypass and Gdańsk Rębiechowo Airport. This warehouse is connected to the PEKAES domestic general cargo distribution terminal network, enabling the delivery of goods from the port to anywhere in Poland within 24 hours.