A City of Opportunities

Gdansk is the largest city in northern Poland and the economic, research, and cultural centre of the Tri-City agglomeration with a million inhabitants. The city's geographic location offers unique opportunities.

Here, the transport corridors of the TINA EU Trans-Continental Transport Network meet. This configuration makes the city a perfect location for the planned Pomeranian Logistics Centre. Next to the harbour, it is to be linked to the Container Terminal (anticipated handling capacity by 2012-1 million TEU/year) and other piers. With the PLC located at the node of land and sea routes of the 6th European transport corridor the Polish maritime trade and transit traffic will gain new perspectives. There will be new opportunities of developing transport lines to the Baltic states and seaports all over the world. The centre is also a major pillar of the strategic plan for economic development of the Pomeranian Region.

Gdansk is the prime tourist area in northern Poland and on the southern Baltic coast. The city attracts visitors with its world-class history of buildings, sites associated with Solidarity, cultural events, and leisure facilities with wide and clean beaches, marinas, bathing grounds, etc. Convenient sea, air, and land transport also pertains to tourism development. Noteworthy is the huge success of the new Gdarisk-Trelleborg-Copenhagen ferry line. In 2003 the ferry will take about 170 thousand passengers. The growing interest in Gdansk makes tourism an ever more profitable sector of the local economy. This, however, calls for new investments in e.g. the accommodation base, new marina, business tourism facilities, etc.

Gdansk is a major research centre in Poland. It has 12 universities with nearly 62 thousand students, plus 15 research establishments. Well-qualified human resources translate to unemployment below the national average. In the last decade Gdansk has grown to become an important centre of new economy industries like IT technologies, and the city authorities consider the sector promising.

New investment opportunities in Gdansk are almost unlimited. The city has an unparalleled range of highly attractive, well-linked, and unoccupied land available for development, spread along the seashore, over the moraine hills, next to the landscape park, and the downtown.