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Poland progresses by leaps and bounds to become key Euro hub
来源：shippingazette.com 编辑：编辑部 发布：2017/12/04 14:33:09
THE 21,413-TEU ships that now call at the DCT Gdansk terminal on their Asia-Europe voyages underscore Poland's rapid rise in Europe's logistics industry over the past decade and sends out a clear signal that it aims to become a continental logistics hub.
DCT Gdansk, whose container volume ballooned from 4,423 TEU in its first year of operation in 2007 to 1.3 million TEU in 2016 and is heading for 1.5 million TEU this year, can bank on significant annual increases in future since it handles the Asia-north Europe hubs of two major container shipping alliances: the 2M plus Hyundai Merchant Marine, and the Ocean Alliance.
Gdansk's bid to become a European hub was sealed when the leading ocean liners opened it up to direct calls from Asia, replacing feeder shipments from Rotterdam, Hamburg and Bremerhaven, IHS Media reported.
DCT Gdansk, majority owned and managed by Australia's Macquarie Global Investment Fund, is well prepared to capitalise on this breakthrough with the opening of a second deepwater berth late last year, doubling its annual capacity to three million TEU.
Traffic is continuing to grow China's Cosco has just launched an additional weekly feeder service between its Polish hub and Helsinki, Riga, Latvia, and Klaipeda, Lithuania, alongside its current service linking Rotterdam and Gdansk with St Petersburg and Kotka, Finland.
DCT Gdansk, along with the other Polish transport and logistics sectors, is aiming to become the hub of choice for importers and exporters in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. Poland aims to also to link up with Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative in a bid to become an import hub for Chinese exports.
Meanwhile, the targeted Central and Eastern Europe market is on a roll, posting its fastest expansion in nine years in the third quarter, with Latvia growing 6.2 per cent year over year and the Czech Republic and Poland up five per cent, outpacing the 28-nation EU average of 2.5 per cent. The Polish economy is forecast to expand by four per cent in 2017, according to IHS Markit forecasts.
Poland's economic growth has been paralleled by its rapidly expanding transport sector, with rising ocean container traffic propelling investment in rail freight beyond its borders coupled with the invasion of its trucks on the highways of its significantly wealthier EU partners.
Poland's truckers haul one-quarter of the EU's cross-border freight traffic and account for 30 per cent of its ballooning cabotage market.
Poland is among the fastest-growing logistics markets in Europe due to its strong value proposition, proximity to western Europe and extensive transportation infrastructure, according to ProLogis, a logistics real estate investment trust.
The country's logistics pull was highlighted by the decision of Zalando, a Berlin-based online fashion group, to invest EUR150 million (US$178 million) in a 1.4 million square foot warehouse in Gryfino, a Polish town one mile from the German border, that will export clothes and shoes to Poland, Germany and the Nordic/Baltic region.
DCT Gdansk, whose container volume ballooned from 4,423 TEU in its first year of operation in 2007 to 1.3 million TEU in 2016 and is heading for 1.5 million TEU this year, can bank on significant annual increases in future since it handles the Asia-north Europe hubs of two major container shipping alliances: the 2M plus Hyundai Merchant Marine, and the Ocean Alliance.
Gdansk's bid to become a European hub was sealed when the leading ocean liners opened it up to direct calls from Asia, replacing feeder shipments from Rotterdam, Hamburg and Bremerhaven, IHS Media reported.
DCT Gdansk, majority owned and managed by Australia's Macquarie Global Investment Fund, is well prepared to capitalise on this breakthrough with the opening of a second deepwater berth late last year, doubling its annual capacity to three million TEU.
Traffic is continuing to grow China's Cosco has just launched an additional weekly feeder service between its Polish hub and Helsinki, Riga, Latvia, and Klaipeda, Lithuania, alongside its current service linking Rotterdam and Gdansk with St Petersburg and Kotka, Finland.
DCT Gdansk, along with the other Polish transport and logistics sectors, is aiming to become the hub of choice for importers and exporters in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. Poland aims to also to link up with Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative in a bid to become an import hub for Chinese exports.
Meanwhile, the targeted Central and Eastern Europe market is on a roll, posting its fastest expansion in nine years in the third quarter, with Latvia growing 6.2 per cent year over year and the Czech Republic and Poland up five per cent, outpacing the 28-nation EU average of 2.5 per cent. The Polish economy is forecast to expand by four per cent in 2017, according to IHS Markit forecasts.
Poland's economic growth has been paralleled by its rapidly expanding transport sector, with rising ocean container traffic propelling investment in rail freight beyond its borders coupled with the invasion of its trucks on the highways of its significantly wealthier EU partners.
Poland's truckers haul one-quarter of the EU's cross-border freight traffic and account for 30 per cent of its ballooning cabotage market.
Poland is among the fastest-growing logistics markets in Europe due to its strong value proposition, proximity to western Europe and extensive transportation infrastructure, according to ProLogis, a logistics real estate investment trust.
The country's logistics pull was highlighted by the decision of Zalando, a Berlin-based online fashion group, to invest EUR150 million (US$178 million) in a 1.4 million square foot warehouse in Gryfino, a Polish town one mile from the German border, that will export clothes and shoes to Poland, Germany and the Nordic/Baltic region.