Port of Szczecin
Port of Szczecin | |
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Location | |
Country | Poland |
Location | Szczecin |
Coordinates | 53°25′33″N 14°34′35″E / 53.42583°N 14.57639°E |
UN/LOCODE | PLSZZ[1] |
Details | |
Opened | Middle Ages |
Operated by | Szczecin and Świnoujscie Seaports Authority |
Owned by | Government of Poland |
No. of wharfs | 103 |
Statistics | |
Vessel arrivals | 3173 (2022)[2] |
Annual cargo tonnage | 11,208,700 (2022)[2] |
Annual container volume | 75,779 (2022)[2] |
Passenger traffic | 4,906 (2022)[2] |
Website Szczecin and Świnoujscie Seaports Authority |
The Port of Szczecin (in Polish generally Port Szczecin) is a Polish
In 2022, cargo traffic in the seaport equaled 11,208,700 tons, comprising 9,4% of all cargo traffic in Polish seaports and the port was entered by 3173 ships with gross tonnage of more than 100.[2]
The Ports of Szczecin and Świnoujście are managed by a single authority, creating Port of Szczecin-Świnoujście, the 6th largest port complex of the Baltic Sea.[3]
History
By the Treaty of Versailles the navigation on the Oder became subject to international agreements, and following its articles 363 and 364 Czechoslovakia was entitled to lease in Stettin (now Szczecin) its own harbour bassin, then called Tschechoslowakische Zone im Hafen Stettin (German: the Czechoslovak Zone in the Port of Stettin).[4]
The contract of lease between Czechoslovakia and Germany, and supervised by the United Kingdom, was signed on February 16, 1929, and would end in 2028, however, after 1945 Czechoslovakia did not regain this legal position, de facto abolished in 1938/1939. A similar lease is still in effect for the Moldauhafen port in Hamburg until 2028.
In 1945, after Soviet capture of the German city and hand-over to the Polish on 5 July 1945, the port remained under Soviet control, and it was to take until 1955 that Poland would obtain complete authority over the port. The
See also
References
- ^ "UNLOCODE (Pl) - POLAND". service.unece.org. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- ^ a b c d e "Statistical Yearbook of Maritime Economy 2023" (PDF). Statistics Poland. 2023-12-28. pp. 90, 98, 158, 292.
- ^ "Raport: przeładunki w bałtyckich portach morskich w 2023. Port Gdańsk liderem wzrostów" [Report: transshipments in Baltic seaports in 2023. Port of Gdansk leading the growth]. GospodarkaMorska.pl (in Polish). 2024-02-06.
- ^ Cf. Archiwum Państwowe w Szczecinie (State Archives in Szczecin), Rep. 126, Krajowy Urząd Skarbowy w Szczecinie [1]
- ^ Jan Musekamp (2010). Between Szczecin and Szczecin, Metamorphoses of a City from 1945 to 2005. Harrassowitz Verlag. pp. 47–48, 65–67.