On Sunday, October 27, four modern STS cranes arrived at the T3 quay at the Gdańsk container terminal Baltic Hub after two months of travel from China. These are the first of seven STS cranes, which in 2025 will increase the transshipment capacity of the Baltic Hub by 1.5 million TEU.

From the area of the beach in Stogi district, the residents of Gdańsk could admire the spectacular moment of the arrival of the gigantic STS cranes - some of the largest in Europe. After loading in Changxin, China, the four impressive machines set off on a long journey to the Baltic Hub. After almost two months of sailing and 16,115 nautical miles (almost 29,500 km), they reached the port of Gdańsk.

The four most modern STS (ship-to-shore) quay cranes, capable of handling the largest container ships in the world, are even larger and higher than the previous ones already operating at the terminal. Each weighs almost 2,000 tons, is over 96 meters high (140 m with the boom raised), and is able to lift a container to a height of 55 meters and above the ship's deck to a length of 74 meters, with a lifting capacity of up to 65 tons.

- The arrival of the huge, fully assembled STS cranes perfectly demonstrates the level of advancement of the T3 investment and brings us closer to completing the project and being ready to meet the needs of our customers in 2025 - said Charles Baker, CEO of Baltic Hub.

Unloading of the cranes will begin on Monday and may take up to 10 days.

The T3 terminal will be equipped with seven quay cranes. Three more will arrive in March 2025. The delivered STS cranes are to start operating in the first half of 2025.

Baltic Hub, which was launched in 2007 under the name DCT Gdańsk, currently has a transshipment capacity of up to 3 million TEU per year. The total length of the terminal's two deep-water quays is 1.3 km, which allows it to handle four ships at the same time. The terminal handles over 700 ships a year, including the world's largest container ships. In 2023, the terminal handled 2.05 million TEU. It employs over 1.4 thousand people.