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Commencement of operations at DCT Gdansk, Poland's newest deepwater port facility, started with the recent loading of 53 Hapag-Lloyd containers, totalling 55 TEU, into the Team Lines ships, the 822-TEU Gotaland.
The Gotaland called at the terminal en route from Klaipeda, Lithuania, to Hamburg. The terminal's management team along with the Gdansk mayor Marcin Szpak, and customs and border officials were on-hand to toast the arrival of the terminal's first ship.
The Gotaland's captain, Dieter Kube, was presented with a commemorative shield displaying the City of Gdansk's coat of arms.
Said DCT Gdansk CEO Colin Chanter: "It's almost two years ago that we set June 1 as the inauguration date of DCT Gdansk's commercial operations and it is extremely gratifying to see that the first ship has berthed right on schedule. Everyone associated with this project should be very proud. Not only is it a testament to the professional approach adopted by our contractors, Hochtief, Van Oord and Liebherr, but also to all of the companies, large and small, who have played a part."
DCT Gdansk has two postpanamax ship-to-shore (STS) cranes and three rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes in operation, and is linked to Poland's transport infrastructure by new road and rail links. By September 2007 the terminal will be operating with three STS cranes and five rubber tyre cranes with attendant yard space and back-up machinery to give the facility an annual throughput capacity of 500,000 TEU.
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