The Structure of Police Port

Police Port consists of three functional elements:

The Seaport
A two-berth quay with a length of 415 m and a design depth of 12.5 m divided into an area for unloading raw materials equipped with two Kone unloading gantry cranes with a capacity of 6 000 t / 24 hours and a fertiliser berth for handling the products of Police SA Chemical Works equipped with MVT cargo handling equipment with a capacity of 3 500 t / 24 hours and two grab cranes with a load-bearing capacity of Q=10t. The quay also has a warehouse (2 000 m2) and open storage with an area of 5 000 m2.

The quay has an operational depth of 10.5 m, which means it can serve the largest ships able to navigate the fairway to Szczecin i.e. ships with a length of 160 m and draught of 9.15 m or length of 206 m and draught of 8.15 m, which means it is fully able to handle fully-loaded bulk carriers with 16 18 000 DWT or partially loaded bulk carriers with a capacity of 40 000 DWT.

The Barge Port
The Barge Port is situated in the direct vicinity of the chemical works and has a quay length of 2 x 200 m and an operational depth of 4.5 m. Its cargo handling equipment consists of two grab cranes with a capacity of Q=8 t and a belt conveyor with a maximum loading capacity of 3 500 t / 24 hours. The barge port serves barges and ships with a length of up to 120 m and draught of 4.0 m, that is around 3 000 DWT.

The Mijanka cargo berth
A quay with a length of 200 m and an operational depth of 8.4 m designated for handling liquid products and equipped with two handling points with a capacity of: ammonia - 300 t / hour; sulphuric acid - 350 t / hour. The Mijanka berth can serve ships with a length of up to 140 m.

The History of Police Port

As early as 1970 the first raw materials vessels were mooring on the quay of the Barge Port. During the seventies the entire port infrastructure (the quays, belt conveyors, and three eight-tonne cranes) was used to serve barges and small ships within the limits of its draught capacity. The cargoes (at that time phosphates and apatites) were transferred from bulk carriers to barges in Œwinoujœcie and transported on to the Police factory. Eventually, when the titanium white plant was started up, the port began to handle imported ilmenite. Barges were also used to transport finished products.

In 1979 due to the large quantity of cargo being transported from the Police Chemical Works (the largest producer of non-organic chemical products in Poland) and to lessen the cargo load handled by the Szczecin-Œwinoujœcie port complex the decision was made to construct a port for the chemical works on the River Oder with the capacity to serve ocean-going ships. The project was initiated by the Szczecin-Œwinoujœcie Port Authority but was taken over by Police SA Chemical Works in 1982, while a barge port on the Gunica River with a handling capacity of 600 000 tonnes a year was delivered for operation in 1979.

The construction project including the port for the chemical works and belt conveyors for unloading raw materials and loading fertiliser onto ships was completed in 1993. Once the Seaport was ready the handling capacity of the port complex was concentrated there. In 1997 the Police Port Complex handled 40 million tonnes of goods, while the largest ship to enter Police port had a displacement of 48 000 DWT.

Police Port - present and future

The business plan adopted by Police SA Chemical Works in the summer of 2004 for its individual restructuring and privatisation strategy provided that the Police Port Complex would be managed by a separate company with the participation of Police commune.

On 22 September 2004 the Board of Police SA Chemical Works decided to form a company to manage the chemical works port. A resolution to form the company 'Port Morski w Policach Sp. z o.o.' was unanimously adopted by councillors of the commune of Police in October 2004.

The company began its operations on 1 January 2005. Its role is to manage the port land and infrastructure. This means that the company will be responsible for the administration and management of port land.

Entrusting the management of Police port to this company will allow Police Chemical Works to maintain control over its day-to-day functioning. It will also be able to obtain European Union development funding which the chemical works port operating on earlier principles would not have been eligible for.