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Poland's oil-terminal operator Naftoport, majority-owned by state pipeline firm PERN, plans to build a new jetty at its Gdansk terminal beginning this year. When it comes online in the latter half of 2028, the facility's annual capacity will rise to about 49 million metric tons. The expansion aims to relieve pressure on existing infrastructure, as the terminal has been near full capacity since 2023, and will enable Germany's refineries such as PCK Schwedt and Leuna to shift fully to seaborne crude. Throughput this year is projected to exceed 39 million metric tons and remain steady into 2026.
Poland's Naftoport oil-terminal at Gdansk will construct a new jetty to handle super-tankers, its majority owner PERN has announced. The goal is to ease infrastructure strain and support German customers in moving entirely to seaborne oil deliveries. To protect volumes and reduce vulnerability to maintenance disruptions, the terminal will initiate building the new jetty this year. Once completed in the second half of 2028, annual throughput capacity will reach around 49 million metric tons. Advertisement
According to PERN Chief Executive Daniel Swietochowski, during talks with clients about spot deliveries, he confirmed that the enhanced capability "is real and on the table".
The terminal has been operating almost at full capacity since 2023, handling record volumes of non-Russian crude as refiners linked to the northern Druzhba pipeline switched to maritime supply routes. This year the throughput is expected to exceed 39 million metric tons and to remain at that level into 2026.
With the added infrastructure, Naftoport will be able to fully meet demand from Germany's PCK Schwedt Refinery (which accounts for more than 12 % of Germany's fuel processing capacity), Germany's Leuna Refinery (operated by TotalEnergies), and Polish refineries run by PKN Orlen.
PCK Schwedt, with minor stakes held by Shell and Italy's Eni, has partly relied on Kazakh crude transported through Poland and partly on seaborne flows via Naftoport since Russian deliveries were halted after Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
Naftoport's CEO Daniel Betke noted that operational pressure has been high: "We sometimes use the six-hour window between one tanker's departure and the next's arrival to carry out repairs, inspections, or maintenance planned down to the minute." He described the new jetty as "our insurance policy".
In earlier years, the terminal's volumes climbed sharply: In 2022 it handled roughly 24.5 million metric tons and in the first half of 2023 nearly 18 million. Analysts back then projected full-year totals above 36 million as the switch away from Russian crude gained pace.
Source Reuters
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