News - DB Schenker invests in Polish sea terminals

29/7/10: DB Schenker is to invest around €22.5m ($29.5m) by 2018 in new wharfs and cranes within the Ports of Szczecin and Swinoujscie in Poland.
 

“Through this investment, we are aiming to greatly increase the transshipment capacity over the medium term and participate in the growth in the exchange of goods via the Ports,” says Hans-Georg Werner, CEO of DB Schenker Rail Polska.
 

DB Schenker Rail Polska, which transships containers, LTL freight, paper, cellulose, granite, steel and other goods and carries out project business for heavy cargo at the Ports, has already installed two new gantry cranes at its new terminal in Szczecin.
 

Scheduled to start operations this coming autumn, the new Szczecin terminal will have an annual capacity of 220,000 TEUs, more than doubling the transshipment capacity of DB Port Szczecin.
 

By 2018, approximately €16.5m will have been invested in this expansion.
 

As a result, space and equipment will be able to be restructured for conventional transshipment, the company says.
 

A modern Liebherr crane is also being installed at the Port of Swinoujscie that can move 10,000 tonnes a day.
 

The Swinoujscie terminal expansion will create capacity for “an additional few hundred thousand metric tonnes each year”, with the first ship carrying imported products scheduled to pass through the Port in mid-2011.
 

“These investments in our ports are part of our plan to develop transportation over the long term,” says Christian Schreyer, a member of the company’s management board with responsibilities for logistics.
 

“We are expecting port hinterland rail transports in particular to increase as a result of the port capacity expansion.”

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