POLAND' Baltic Container Terminal (BCT), a unit of Manila's International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI), has handled its first vessel carrying components for the construction of wind farms.

With the increasing need for renewable energy and its growing popularity in Poland, wind farms have grown in number. Polish ports have seen greater movement of wind farm components, as a result.

 BCT, in Gdynia, has the equipment to perform complex transshipment of wind farm components. Utilising two Liebherr mobile harbour cranes with a lifting capacity of 100 tons each, the terminal is capable of handling oversize cargo.

 According to the Energy Regulatory Office, there are now 619 wind power installations in operation in Poland with total capacity of 2,188.941 MW, and the government plans to have the wind power raised until 2020 to a level as high as 6,650 MW, said the ICTSI release.

(Source:shipping online)