The construction of the deep-water quay T3 Baltic Hub in Gdansk has begun. The investment, valued at €470 million, will involve the construction of a 717-metre-long, 18-metre-deep deep-water quay and a 36-hectare site. Gdansk is the only port in the Baltic Sea capable of handling the largest container ships.

Present at the ceremony, Deputy Infrastructure Minister Marek Gróbarczyk stressed that with this investment, the port of Gdansk will become the largest container port, handling the most containers in the Baltic.

The construction work assumes dredging works with a cubage of more than 4 million metres. The terminal will be built on the water away from the beach, but some of the associated infrastructure will also extend on land at 550 m (east), more than 300 m from Stogi beach. In addition, seven quay cranes capable of loading and unloading the largest ships in the world, as well as 20 semi-automatic RMG cranes operating in the container yard will be purchased.

Baltic Hub CEO Charles Baker stressed that thanks to this investment, the port of Gdansk will be able to handle a new generation of container ships coming to the Baltic Sea. He pointed out that Gdansk is also becoming the main port for countries such as the Czech Republic and Slovakia, which do not have access to the sea.

The cost of the investment is approximately PLN 2 billion (around EUR 450 million). It will be financed solely from the Baltic Hub’s own resources and funds raised from external lenders. The new terminal will be built entirely on the water, with the development adjacent to the T1 terminal.

T3 is scheduled to open for commercial operations at the end of the first half of 2024, with full project completion in the second quarter of 2025. In the first phase, the new terminal will increase the handling capacity of the Baltic Hub by 1.5 million TEUs (Twenty-foot Equivalent Units, 20-foot containers), to 4.5 million TEUs per year.

Arkadiusz Słomczyński