Polish seaports in the first half of 2025

Polish seaports ended the first half of 2025 with 68.46 million tonnes of transshipments, an increase of 1.05% year-on-year, according to the latest Port Monitor report  prepared by the consulting company Actia Forum.

The Port of Gdansk remains the leader in terms of volume, handling 38.25 million tonnes of cargo.

Individual port results

In January-June 2025, the Port  of Gdansk handled the largest volume – 38.25 million tonnes (+0.36% y/y). Second place was taken by the Szczecin-Świnoujście port complex with a result of 17.15 million tonnes (+7.69% y/y), and  third place was taken by the Port of Gdynia – 13.06 million tonnes, recording a decrease of 4.78% y/y.

The decline in Gdynia’s result, was mainly related to the reduction in grain exports. On the scale of the entire market, the transshipment of cereals decreased by 33.09 percent, to about 4 million tons.

Exports of processed goods are growing in strength

The strongest trend in the analysed period was the 9.6 per cent increase in general cargo transshipment, to the level of almost 30 million tonnes. This is a direct signal that Polish exports are moving towards goods with higher added value: machinery, industrial components, metal products, household appliances and chemical products.

• The Port of Gdansk increased the volume of general cargo by 12.23% ( an increase of over 1.4 million tonnes),
• Port of Gdynia – an increase of 5.53 percent,
• Szczecin-Świnoujście – up by 5.53 pecent.

These results are reflected in container statistics – transshipments at container terminals increased by a total of 20.72 percent, which strengthens the export logistics of companies operating on EU and global markets.

Containers and ro-ro

Polish container terminals handled a total of 1.88 million TEU. The highest number was recorded at the Port of Gdansk – nearly 1.3 million TEU (+20.5%), which was the result of, among other things, the launch of the T3 terminal at the Baltic Hub and the new services of the Gemini and Premier Alliance shipping.
In Gdynia, container handling increased by 19.18 percent (536.2 thousand TEU), and in Szczecin-Świnoujście by 46.11 percent (over 50 thousand TEU),  thanks to the Eimskip line.

In the ro-ro segment, 35,600  freight units were handled (+7.34% y/y). The highest number was in Szczecin-Świnoujście – 238,380 units (+8.09 per cent). In Gdynia, 106,100  units were handled (+8.48 per cent), and in Gdańsk a decrease of 17.6 per cent was recorded (9152 units).

Structure of transshipments – decreases and increases

A decrease in turnover was recorded in four cargo groups:

• cereals: -33.09 percent,
• coal and coke: -8.22 %,
• wood: -0.09 percent,
• fuel: -1.5 percent

Increases were recorded  in among other things, the case of:

• metal ore: +45.66 per cent,
• general cargo: +9.6 percent,
• other mass cargo: +16.42 per cent.

Coal and fuels

In the first half of 2025, 4.08 million tons of coal were transshipped – 365,000  tons less than a year earlier. The volume is close to the level before the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, and the downward trend has been maintained since the record years of 2022-2023.

Total fuel transshipments amounted to 25.09 million tonnes. The Port of Gdansk handled the most – 19.2 million tonnes (a decrease of 4.75 per cent). In Gdynia, the decrease was greater – by 19.84 percent, to 1.27 million tons. The only port with an increase was Szczecin-Świnoujście – 4.6 million tonnes (+23.61 per cent), mainly due to a record number of LNG deliveries – the terminal in Świnoujście received 40 tankers with gas, the highest number in its history in half-year terms.

Source: Gospodarka Morska, „Podsumowanie wyników polskich portów morskich w pierwszej połowie 2025 roku”