DB Schenker invests in Baltic ports

In cooperation with the port authority, DB Schenker will invest in the new wharfs and cranes by 2018, which will increase transhipment capacity in the medium-term and boost growth in the exchange of goods via the ports.

DB Schenker Rail Polska tranships containers, less-than carload freight and bulk cargo at the ports, and carries out project business for heavy cargo.

Two new gantry cranes have been installed in Szczecin, each of which can move 35 containers per hour and stack up to five containers.

With DB Schenker Rail Polska scheduled to begin operating the new container terminal in fall 2010, roads and new IT systems have also been the target of investment.

The terminal will have an annual capacity of up to 220,000 TEU, more than doubling the transhipment capacity of DB Port Szczecin.

By 2018, a total of approximately €16.5 million will have been invested in the expansion.

At the port of Swinoujscie, a modern Liebherr crane is being installed, which can 10,000 metric tons per day. The terminal expansion will create capacity for an additional few hundred thousand metric tons each year.

The first ship carrying imported products is scheduled to pass through the port in mid-2011.

A contract with Polish Trade Services of the agricultural production and food producer Bunge International Group will secure transhipment for the long-term.