Capacity

Cargo handling capacity of the terminal:

• Daily capacity:
  
  • 10,000 passengers,
    
  • 3,000 cars and coaches,
    
  • 3,000 trucks,
    
  • 500 railway wagons,
    
  • 35,000 t of cargo.
    
• Annual capacity:
  
  • 2-3 million passengers,
    
  • 0.5-0.8 million cars and coaches,
    
  • 0.5-0.8 million trucks,
    
  • 100,000 railway wagons,
    
  • 9,000,000 t of cargo.

Average turnaround time amounts to 4 hours. The Terminal can handle 25 vessels per day, i.e. at least 100 vessels per week or 5,000 vessels per year.


The following vessels can be handled in the terminal:

1. Passenger-car ferries,
2. High Speed Crafts (mono-hulls, catamarans),
3. Rail ferries and rail-car ferries,
4. Ro-ro vessels,
5. Pleasure boats,
6. Inland navigation pleasure boats,
7. Passenger-car ferries without cabins for short shipping.

The range of services offered in the terminal will be extended to include:

1. forming and unforming of general cargo carried
   by railway wagons,
2. port service for ro-ro car-carriers,
3. handling of oversized cargoes,
4. service of combined transport.

The establishment of a distribution facility for forming/unforming of general cargo carried by railway wagons combined with the setting up of road transport service will enable implementation of "just in time" and "door to door" transport solutions. The existing Customs Warehouse is planned to be utilised for this purpose. The terminal has the appropriate equipment and technology for forming and unforming of cargoes carried by trucks.

The construction of a transhipment terminal for combined transport involves the establishment of a transhipment facility for trailers carried by railway wagons. Trailers will be first unloaded from a ferry on a storage yard and then loaded on special railway wagons and transported by rail to transhipment terminals in Poland or to South Europe. At destination trailers will be handled in a similar manner and delivered to consignees using tractors.

An adaptation is also being considered in the terminal for the service of inland shipping vessels for the transport of oversized cargoes delivered by sea ferries.

There are also plans for extending the range of services offered by the terminal to include service of ro-ro car-carriers. This would enable the export or import of motor cars using sea transport.

Implementation of these projects will require co-operation with other companies operating within the port of Świnoujście and will involve e.g. development of the "Odraport" Duty Free Zone adjacent to the terminal. The Zone includes extensive storage yards and warehouses and it is there that facilities could be established for the service of ro-ro vessels, e.g. from Scandinavia or Benelux countries, combined with cars transhipment.