New Baltic feeder connection from DCT Gdansk

Maersk Line, the world biggest container line was the first global operator to recognize the potential of DCT Gdansk to become the Baltic hub. Since the beginning of 2010 Maersk Line S-class vessels within the AE10 string call DCT Gdansk on weekly basis to connect Asia with central Europe.

In the beginning of July 2010, Maersk Line introduced an additional Baltic feeder connection that uses solely DCT as hub port. In addition to benefitting from DCT’s high quality service, Maersk Line has also recognized that DCT Gdansk’s location is a more advantageous as a hub to serve other Baltic region destinations.

Maersk Line’s Managing Director for Eastern Central Europe covering Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, Mr Jeff Gosciniak said: “We are pleased to announce that Maersk Line has deployed a new own feeder service on July 2nd named F15. The service is designed to cater for the additional import volumes from Gdansk to St. Petersburg as well as the export flows from St.Petersburg and Kotka to Gdansk. We hope that this service will give even more flexibility to our Customers in the Baltic Sea Region”.

Since beginning of July, the 956 TEU mv Hanse Confidence sails from DCT Gdansk every week as part of the new F15 service. The feeder vessel calls St. Petersburg (Russia) and Kotka (Finland), allowing a single vessel to complete the service loop in only seven days. Similar services operating from traditional Western European hub ports typically require at least two vessels and longer transit time to service the same destinations. Thanks to this new feeder connection, DCT Gdansk is currently the only terminal in Poland offering two connections a week to Kotka and St. Petersburg.

 

source:www.maerskline.pl

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DCT Gdansk exceeds its 2009 handling volume

DCT Gdansk, Poland’s largest container terminal recorded dynamic growth in the first half of 2010. By June 2010,
it already exceeded its 2009 volume by handling a total of 173,279 TEU. Monthly handling volume continues to increase steadily and totaled in excess of 36,000 TEU in June.  As a result DCT plans to triple its activity in 2010 compared to 2009 by handling around 450,000 TEUs.
The dynamic growth of the container volume handled allows DCT to accelerate its plans for investments into more handling equipment.
Boris Wenzel, CEO of DCT Gdansk commented:
”Thanks to our consistently high berth productivity levels, DCT Gdansk still has ample capacity to handle services from other lines with the same high quality of service our Clients have been accustomed to.
We expect to finalize shortly the purchase of additional equipment to gradually increase our handling capacity to   
1 million TEU to maximise the potential of our existing infrastructure and respond to demand from the market.”
Longer term, the future expansion phases can provide DCT with up to 4 million TEU capacity to service Lines switching from traditional Northern European hubs in order to take advantage of DCT’s high quality service, facilities and location to service Poland and the rest of the Central & Eastern European markets.
DCT Gdansk is the only terminal in Poland and the Baltic Sea receiving weekly deep sea calls from the Far East operated by Maersk Line. The terminal also cooperates with a variety of other lines shipping their containers to Poland using public feeder services.