Port of Gdynia expands
PR dla Zagranicy
John Beauchamp
02.12.2014 11:05
A new grain storage warehouse has been opened at the Port of Gdynia, boosting the Port’s storage capacity for the product by 60 percent.
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The new warehouse means that the Baltic Grain Terminal in Gdynia is now able to hold up to 72,000 tons of wheat, though can also be adapted to hold similar products such as animal feed.
Marek Kwiatkowski, Head of the Baltic Grain Terminal in Gdynia, commented that “this will result in the consolidation of the [Gdynia] terminal as the leader in handling the export of grain,” pointing out that the terminal already has a 35 percent market share in Polish grain exports.
He added that “the previous lack of this extra surface area limited the competiveness of the terminal”.
Polish grain passing through Gdynia is primarily exported to Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt, while in turn soybean from South America is imported through the Port.
Grain has a historical importance for the region as the nearby Port of Gdansk was the main centre of the Polish grain trade during the 16th and 17th centuries, which at its peak supplied some of the major coastal cities of North-Western Europe with food.
Gdynia itself was originally founded in the 1920s as part of an attempt to modernise the Polish economy, and has recently seen a significant increase in shipping activity linked to increasing Polish exports. (sl/jb)
Source: PAP