Gdynia harbour puts on the development
Port of Gdynia Authority SA - a
company constituted by the Treasury and Gdynia commune - is responsible for the
planned and harmonious harbour development. The priority of the company's
activity, the enterprise of which has the statutory status of "the
enterprise of public usefulness", is the optimum usages of harbour areas
and infrastructure, its modernization and reconstruction as well as the
improvement of harbour accessibility from the land side.
Harbour infrastructure (harbour water regions, landing
piers, roads and railway tracks) is of public generally accessible
infrastructure character and is rendered accessible to all the users on the
equal conditions specified in the Harbour Dues Tariff.
The exploitation activity is however, led by its separate
transactors, which lease from the Harbour Management storage areas by means of
public tenders and which invest in their own reloading devices.
Within the limits of Gdynia sea harbour, which covers the
area of 492,7 ha there are about 400 of different transactors acting - starting
from reloading operators through production and repair shipyards to transport
and tourist service providers.
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 "By means of harbour infrastructure development, we
shall reach the appointed aims: new investors as well as stable and balanced
development of service sector in Gdynia harbour".
Przemysław Marchlewicz,
the chairman of Port of Gdynia Authority SA
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The main task of Port of Gdynia Authority SA is
ground and infrastructure management. By means of realizing the harbour
development, the Management of the Company, has, for many years, consequently
been realizing the process of investing in strategic domains of harbour
activity.
The specialty of Gdynia harbour is container loads. The
service of them is the domain of Baltic Container Terminal Ltd. (BCT) as well
as the newly founded Gdynia Container Terminal S.A. (GCT). Today we serve 85% of
Polish container reloads. Gdynia harbour is also, equipped in modern reloading
devices, terminals of mass goods: Baltic Grain Terminal Ltd., (BTZ), Maritime Bulk Terminal Gdynia Ltd. (MTMG), as well as Baltic Bulk Terminal Ltd. (BBM), intended
for the service of Polish chemical products export, especially fertilizers.
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"Stena Line, which serves the line of Gdynia - Karlskrona by means of two ferries, in 2006 transported over 86, 8 thousands of
shipment units (over 19% more than in 2005)"
Marek Grzybowski
"Ferry
navigation in 2006" Polska Gazeta Transportowa (Polish Transport
Newspaper) February, 22nd, 2007
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Gdynia is a universal harbour with
the predominance of piece-goods loads service. BTDG - Baltic General Cargo Terminal Gdynia Ltd. comprise for the connection of two terminals: ro-ro
and piece-goods, offering re-loading technologies adjusted to multi-modal
transport requirements.
Apart from constantly increasing goods turnover, Gdynia harbour notes down greater and greater traffic of passenger and good ferries on
regular, year-round line Gdynia - Karlskrona.
Today, when tough competitiveness enforces the continuous
modernization process as well as technology application, Gdynia Harbour ploughs resources in its own infrastructure in order to create for the customers the
optimum conditions for service and functioning as well as to attract national
and foreign investors. Since 2003 to 2006 Port of Gdynia Authority SA invested in the development the amount of 226,56 million PLN. Additionally,
harbour companies (privatized as well as those which stay in capital group ZMPG-a
S.A.) invested over 100 million PLN in reloading devices.
It shall also be added that within the same period of time (2003-2006)
the reloads in Gdynia harbour increased from 9,74 to 14,2 millions of tonnes a
year, that is for almost 46%.
The most important harbour investments for the nearest
years
Port of Gdynia Authority SA appointed for
financing for the years 2007 - 2013 in terms of Operational Program
Infrastructure and Environment the realization of five investment undertakings
for the total value estimated for 510 million net PLN:
The aim of the latter mentioned above investment
realization is the preparation of infrastructure for the future Logistic
Centre. It will be located in the West Harbour in the neighbourhood of
container terminals. The works in terms of the project will be carried out on
the area of about 40 ha.
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Harbour development vision
"Keeping the stable and strong position of the Harbour
in the Baltic region, as the leading one in piece-goods loads service,
including mainly united, transferred in containers in ro-ro system, basing on
the developed network of multi-modal connections with the backup as well as
multiple lines of regular navigation of close access, ferry connections and
excursion navigation. The strong harbour position shall result from assuring
the suitable standards of people and loads service safety as well as
environment protection safety, and also constant care for high efficiency and
effectiveness of harbour functioning."
The strategy of Gdynia Harbour development until the year 2015
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Components of the first investment phase will mostly
concern: the main communication road, the system of railway side tracks, the
car park for trucks, on-ground and underground infrastructure (including the
transformation station) as well as the arrangement of water economy on the
harbour development areas. The performance of the elements is the necessary
internal condition for success in terms of attracting the investors to Gdynia. The external conditions, including the access to the investment area that is Kwiatkowskiego Route and A1 motorway are also extremely essential.
Up to this time, the Ministry of Sea Economy has classified
two of our projects to the project lists, for which financial resources have
already been reserved:
