There is a building permit for the T5 terminal on the Baltic Hub site

Pomeranian Voivode Beata Rutkiewicz has issued a permit for the construction of the T5 transhipment terminal, the Pomeranian Voivodeship Office in Gdansk reported on Tuesday. The new terminal is to serve as a deep-water base for the offshore wind power installation process. It will be built in the external waters of the Port of Gdansk on the Bay of Gdansk.

The Pomeranian Voivodship Office in Gdansk on Tuesday posted on its website a governor’s notice on the issuance of a decision on a permit for the construction, reconstruction and demolition of the proposed T5 container terminal.

The permit relates to the construction of, among other things: a loading quay, shoreline enclosure, fender and mooring dugouts, storage yards and communication or parking areas.

The notice also indicates that the permit relates to the execution of other construction works, including the reconstruction of: cable ducting, the internal teletechnical network, the installation of stormwater drainage in connection with the planned demolition of the shore breakwater, manoeuvring yards and access roads.

In addition, as part of the permit, the contractor will be able to demolish: the shoreline enclosure, the mooring bay at terminal T1, the roads and parts of the electrical and teletechnical installations.

The T5 terminal, according to the tender information provided by Istrana (the Baltic Hub SPV), can serve as a base for the offshore wind installation process (OWIB; Offshore Wind Installation Base). The terminal is to be an extension of the existing T1 terminal, facing the waters of the external part of the Port of Gdansk located on the Bay of Gdansk. It is reported that a body of water of approximately 21 hectares will be flooded for this purpose.

T5 is to be equipped with mooring berths for the import of components delivered by ships and for their export by installation vessels (dispatch of finished wind power sets to the farm), as well as a Ro-Ro ramp.

The Baltic Hub, which was launched in 2007 under the name DCT Gdansk, has a capacity of up to 3 million TEUs per year. The total length of the terminal’s two deep-water berths is 1.3km, allowing it to handle four vessels simultaneously. The terminal handles more than 700 vessels per year, including the world’s largest container ships.

In 2023, the terminal handled 2.05 million TEUs and employs more than 1,400 people

Source: PortalMorski.pl