Economic Overview Of Gdansk

Gdansk’s location, at the mouth of the Vistula River and along the shores of the Baltic Sea, governs its biggest industries- shipbuilding and shipping. Gdansk’s shipyards are its lifeline, and have even played an important role in Poland’s history. Other than shipping, the main industries which are based in Gdansk include chemicals, metallurgy, timber  and food processing. Furniture, automobiles, fertilizer, amber, cigarettes, bricks and military weapons are among the other products of Gdansk.

Gdansk has been an important northern Europe port for well over eight hundred years now, and from the very beginning, has held the position of one of Poland’s biggest and most important trading and manufacturing centres. The city has two main ports: Nowy Port (New Port), which, is, paradoxically, the older of the two; and Port Polnocny (North Port). Many of the city’s industries are in the Nowy Port area; Port Polnocny is the trading zone for coal exports and petroleum imports.