# Baltic Hub Container Terminal

Baltic Hub Container Terminal - (previously Deepwater Container Terminal, DCT) is located in the area of Port Północy (Northern Port) in Port of Gdańsk, Poland. It was officially opened on 1 October 2007 and is the largest port in Poland. It also serves as a transshipment hub for Saint Petersburg and other ports in the Baltic Sea region. Currently the handling capacity of the container terminal amounts to 3,000,000 TEU with prospect to further increase by 250,000 TEU due to conversion of additional storage area as well as container handling equipment purchase.

## Important events

The DCT Gdańsk container terminal has become a springboard for the Polish Maritime Economy. However, there are several crucial events which have thus far outlined its standards and its direction of development.
* DCT Gdańsk and Maersk Line have made a breakthrough in the maritime economy on the Baltic Sea. In 2011, some of the largest container ships in the world at that time, the 14,700-TEU capacity Mærsk E-class container ships began regular weekly calls in Gdańsk. These included Evelyn Maersk, Emma Maersk, Eleonora Maersk, Ebba Maersk and Eugen Maersk.
* DCT Gdańsk reached its first one millionth handling in June 2011. The millionth container ship – Emma Maersk (a flag Maersk Line container ship) made its maiden voyage to Gdańsk.
* The construction of the biggest logistics center in Poland. The multifunctional logistics center is due to be financed and constructed by the Australian Group Goodman. The initial concept for the development provides for up to 500,000 sq m of storage space and for up to 40,000 sq m of office space. The development of the logistics center will be accompanied by the extension of the local infrastructure: Sucharski Route, the tunnel at the Dead Vistula and the Gdańsk Southern Ring-Road. The connection with the modern deep-water container terminal DCT Gdańsk will serve as an advantage.
* Implementation of E-SMART – a modern tool produced by the British company International Terminal Solutions Ltd (ITS) designed for the visual management – July 2011
* Maersk Line was the first container line which introduced direct navigational connection (AE10) from the Far East to the Baltic region (while realizing exceptional opportunities of DCT Gdańsk). The direct connection of the Far East ports with Gdańsk has the following rotation: AE10 Asia–Europe–Asia: Kwangyang – Ningbo – Shanghai – Yantian – Tanjung Pelepas – Suez Canal – Rotterdam – Bremerhaven– Gdansk – Aarhus – Gothenburg – Bremerhaven – Rotterdam – Algeciras – Suez Canal – Yantian – Kwangyang;
* Award given by Maersk Line for the best terminal in Northern Europe in 2009 and in 2010. The awards: “Terminal of 2009” and "Terminal of 2010" has been given to DCT Gdańsk for its continuous leadership in monthly rankings of the terminals of Northern Europe, which Maersk Line co-operates with. The ranking covers an array of the following criteria: productivity, expectation time or intervals in handling and port costs.
* The container terminal started to handle direct regular container connections from the Far East in January 2010.

## Sea connectivity

* Maersk Line AE10 Asia–Europe–Asia (Kwangyang – Ningbo – Shanghai – Yantian – Tanjung Pelepas – Suez Canal – Rotterdam – Bremerhaven– Gdansk – Aarhus – Gothenburg – Bremerhaven – Rotterdam – Algeciras – Suez Canal – Yantian – Kwangyang)
* Gdansk Finnish Gulf Service (Gdansk – Kotka – Helsinki – Gdansk)
* Gdansk – St. Petersburg Service (Gdansk – St. Petersburg – Gdansk)
* OOCL line LL1 Asia-North Europe Loop1 (Shanghai - Ningbo - Xiamen - Yantian - Singapore - Felixstowe - Zeebrugge - Gdansk - Wilhelmshaven - Piraeus)

## Container throughput

* 2007 - 4,423 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU)
* 2008 - 106,469 TEU
* 2009 - 162,189 TEU
* 2010 - 451,730 TEU
* 2011 - 634,871 TEU
* 2012 - 896,962 TEU
* 2013 - 1,150,887 TEU
* 2014 - 1,188,380 TEU
* 2015 - 1,069,705 TEU
* 2016 - 1,289,842 TEU
* 2017 - 1,593,761 TEU