On 23 August 2019, PSA’s new joint venture – DCT Gdańsk in Poland – welcomed the largest container ship sailing the oceans today, the MSC Gulsun.

The leviathan was in Gdańsk on a weekly 2M Silk/AE-10 service call. During its stay, about 11,000 containers (18,000 TEUs) were handled – the largest regular container exchange to occur anywhere in Europe.

MSC Gulsun has an operating capacity of 23,756 TEUs, 400 metres long (about four football fields laid end-to-end), 61.5 metres wide and 24 rows across. Its new bow shape is specially designed to reduce hull resistance and increase energy efficiency. In addition, its hybrid flue gas cleaning system provides an option for switching to low sulfur fuel or adapting to liquefied natural gas in the future.

The world’s largest container ships regularly call at DCT Gdańsk, with its state-of-the-art, ship-to-shore cranes having outreach in excess of 25 rows, deep-water berths and turning circles of up to 670 metres in diameter. These facilities allow DCT the capability to handle the new class of Megamax-24 vessels.

The terminal enables Poland – the Gateway to Eastern Europe – to connect with the largest maritime transport trade route between Europe and Asia. It also serves the Baltic Sea markets, being the most cost-effective way to reach the inland foreign markets of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Belarus and Western Ukraine.