Infrastructure
Search site
 
 
 
 
 
 Pomorskie Gateway 
 
Infrastructure

Infrastructure

Favourable geographic location is a prime attribute of the Pomorskie region which lies on the crossing of two pan-European transport routes of paramount importance for the transit traffic:
 
  • Corridor IA (Helsinki—Tallin—Riga—Kaliningrad—Gdańsk), a branch off Corridor I (Helsinki—Tallinn—Riga—Kaunas—Warsaw)
 
  • Corridor VI (Gdańsk—Katowice—Żylina), linking Scandinavia to Central and Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean countries

Poland’s accession to the European Union and the ensuing access to the European funds have made it possible to implement numerous projects aimed at increasing the region’s accessibility and improving the existing transport infrastructure.
 
Cargo and passenger transport:

Roads
The main road project in the region is the construction of the A1 motorway in the course of the E75 international road, from the Tri-city to the border pass in Gorzyczki. The building works in the Pomorskie Voivodeship have already been completed. The work front has now moved to the other sections. The entire project is to be finalised in the year 2011.
 
National roads Nos. 7 and 6 are equally important for Pomerania. National road No. 7 from Żukowo near Gdańsk, across Warsaw, and down to the Slovak border in Chyżne, forms a section of the E77 international road and of the E28 route (from Gdańsk to Elbląg East). By the year 2011 national road No. 7 is to be upgraded to the standard of a double carriageway. Other vital projects include the Kashubian Route. The goal of this venture is to improve access to the Tri-city agglomeration from the west (now national road No. 6). The Kashubian Route, forming a section of the S6 express road in the Via Hanseatica corridor (Hamburg—Tri-city—Sankt Petersburg) will enable travellers driving in the Gdańsk-Szczecin direction encircle Gdynia and the so-called Kashubian Small Tri‑city (Wejherowo, Reda, Rumia).
 
 
Ports
The seaports of Gdynia and Gdańsk are the largest harbours in the Baltic Sea region. Together, they handle almost any type of cargo and vessel. The geographic and market location of the Tri-city seaports predestines them to become centres of distribution and logistics focused on the Baltic Sea region and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The seaports of Gdańsk and Gdynia are also an important link in the transport chain from the Scandinavian countries to Southern Europe, especially the Adriatic and Black Sea regions.
 
  • The Port of Gdańsk is made up of two basins—the Inner Port stretching along the Dead Vistula and the Port Canal, with a direct outlet to the Bay of Gdańsk. The Inner Port can take vessels up to the maximum draught of 10.2 m and the length of 225 m. The Outer Port stretches out into the sea forming the deepwater Northern Port. This basin can take the largest ships sailing the Baltic Sea (maximum draught of 15 m). The modern deepsea container terminal, DCT, is located in the Northern Port.
 
  • The Port of Gdynia specialises in container handling, which is the core business line of the Baltic Container Terminal (BCT). BCT’s present reloading capacity stands at 500 thousand TEU, however investments will increase it to 1 million TEU over the next few years. The Port of Gdynia, too, has bulk and general cargo terminals fitted with modern reloading gear. It leads in servicing passenger ships, and is a ro-ro cargo handling centre, including ferry shipments. Noteworthy, the Port of Gdynia records a steady growth in the flow of all types of cargo.
 

The Port of Gdansk, fot. www.kacperkowalski.pl / www.portgdansk.pl

The Port of Gdańsk

Fot. www.kacperkowalski.pl / www.portgdansk.pl
Rail
The railway network of the Pomorskie Voivodeship offers highly convenient cargo transport, including any goods shipped in. The local lines complement four railway arteries of importance for the international traffic:
 
  • from the Tri-city to the German border (via Szczecin)
  • from Gdańsk to the Czech and Slovak borders (via Warsaw and Kraków)
  • from Gdańsk to the south-western border (via Bydgoszcz, Łódź, and Katowice)
  • from Gdańsk to Kaliningrad (via Olsztyn) or Belarus (via Białystok)
  
Airport
Today, the Pomorskie Voivodeship has one commercial passenger airport – the Gdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport. That civil facility holding all prerequisite licences can handle all types of commercial passenger and cargo traffic, as well as general aviation flights, business flights included. Thanks to its location, the Gdańsk airport can serve a major part of the voivodeship population plus business centres outside the region. Situated 16 km from Gdańsk city centre, offers direct services to Warsaw, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Copenhagen and Munich. Low-cost airlines are very popular, with connections from Gdańsk to Dortmund, Cologne / Bonn, Lubeck, Frankfurt, London, Dublin, Edinburgh, Oslo, Liverpool and Stockholm.

 

 
The dynamic growth of the passenger traffic handled illustrates well the increasing role of the Gdańsk airport. Ever since the year 2000 the Gdańsk Airport has recorded a steady annual increase in the number of passengers and the volume of cargo serviced. The passenger flow in the year 2000 stood at 270 thousand, whereas in 2008 exceeded 1 954 thousand. Thanks to the completion of the planned investments, the number of passengers may increase by 2020 to 7.5 million annually.

 

 

 

 







Źródło Agencji Rozwoju Pomorza S.A.







Author: Bartosz Kraszewski, published date: 2012.05.11 13:05