The pandemic shuffled the global logistics and supply chain landscape early last year. While in recent years we have witnessed a strong trend towards containerisation, the market situation has changed radically in the last year with the exponential growth of container freight rates and the shortage of shipping space. In order to avoid the inconvenience of container transport, customers first started looking for suppliers within Europe, if at all possible. For goods that could not be delivered by land, logistics specialists found a solution in conventional shipments by sea. As a result, the General Cargoes Terminal has seen a significant increase in maritime throughput in the past year. This totalled 19% more than in 2020, or 1.13 million tonnes. It included, among other things, more metal coils, wire, and a wide variety of project cargoes – from wind turbines to other industrial equipment. Last year, due to the lower volume of container shipments, the terminal provided slightly fewer CFS (Container Freight Station) services, which is expected to be corrected this year with the expected easing of the situation, in particular of container freight rates.

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