Dorota Pyć, president of the Port of Gdańsk, explains how Poland’s leading seaport is strengthening Baltic logistics, expanding energy infrastructure and serving as a key gateway for European supply chains.

Q: What strategy has shaped your tenure so far?

Since taking the helm, I have anchored the port’s direction around three strategic pillars. The first is infrastructure improvement, with a particular focus on expanding transshipment capacity and strengthening both road and rail connections to our terminals. Rail access is especially critical – it is central to EU transport policy and to our own ambitions to develop intermodal corridors linking the port to domestic and European markets. The second pillar is process digitalisation. The third pillar is sustainable development. 

Q: What have been the key factors behind the port’s growth?

In 2025, the port handled 80.4 million tonnes of cargo, which moved us up three places in the EU ranking. General cargo grew significantly, reaching 27.2 million tonnes. Container transshipment grew by 23% to nearly 2.8 million TEU, which directly reinforces our role as the primary container hub for the Baltic Sea region.

For German investors and logistics operators specifically, we position the Port of Gdańsk as a gateway – a modern, well-connected and continuously developing point of entry to central and eastern European markets. We offer access to investment areas within the port itself and in its immediate logistics vicinity, including space for distribution centres and e-commerce hubs.

Q: What is the port’s role in energy transition?

The ambition to position the Port of Gdańsk as an energy hub is substantial. The port’s growing role in diversifying energy supply routes – demonstrated by Naftoport’s cooperation with Germany – reflects a wider strategic logic: seaports are not simply commercial assets; they are instruments of national and European energy security. We are building our capacity accordingly.