The Port of Gdaà Âsk is a Polish seaport located on the southern coast of Gdaà Âsk Bay in the city of Gdaà Âsk, extending along the Vistula estuary Martwa Wisà Âa, Port Channel and Kashubia Canal. It is one of the largest seaports on the Baltic Sea.
The Port of Gdaà Âsk is divided into two parts, the Inner and Exterior Port.
The Port of Gdaà Âsk has specialized cargo handling equipment and port infrastructure, enabling among others the handling of grain, fertilizers, lumber, ore, steel and containers, as well as ro-ro vessel servicing.
Northern Port is located directly in the water basins of Gdaà Âsk Bay. The largest vessels with a capacity of up to and draft to 15 m that enter the Baltic Sea can be serviced here.
The Baltic Hub Container Terminal (previously Deepwater Container Terminal) is located in the northern port. It was officially opened on 1 October 2007 and is the largest container terminal 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 4,500,000 TEU after 2025 modernization.
The terminal has become a springboard for the Polish Maritime Economy. 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 Gdaà Âsk. These included Evelyn Maersk, Emma Maersk, Eleonora Maersk, Ebba Maersk and Eugen Maersk. DCT Gdaà Âsk reached its first one millionth handling in June 2011. July 2011 saw the implementation of E-SMART, a modern tool by the British company International Terminal Solutions Ltd (ITS). Maersk were the first container line which to introduce direct navigational connection (AE10) from the Far East to the Baltic region.