Construction of the FSRU LNG terminal in the Port of Gdańsk begins to pick up pace
The Maritime Office in Gdynia begins the construction of a protective breakwater in the Port of Gdańsk, necessary for the commissioning of the FSRU terminal. On 17 March 2025, an agreement was signed with the contractor, NDI from Sopot. The first gas tanker should arrive at the floating FSRU terminal at the end of 2027/beginning of 2028.
It is a strategic investment because it ensures security and diversification of supply. The investor for the breakwater is the Maritime Office in Gdynia, while the terminal is owned by Gaz-System.
“This is undoubtedly a very important step towards the development of the Port of Gdańsk, but also towards strengthening Poland’s energy security. We are going to build a breakwater with a length of almost 1300 m, a new approach channel, and prepare the necessary navigational markings to ensure the safe mooring, unloading and manoeuvring of gas tankers. This stage requires PLN 800 million’, said Arkadiusz Marchewka, Deputy Minister of Infrastructure, during a press conference.
The terminal is to be located in the southern part of the Gulf of Gdańsk, in the vicinity of the Baltic Hub container terminal, approx. 3 km off the coastline in Górki Zachodnie. A Floating Storage Regasification Unit (FSRU), a ship designed to store liquefied natural gas (LNG) received from methane carriers and change its state of matter from liquid to gaseous, will be permanently moored to the quay. Its regasification capacity is 6.1 billion cubic metres per year. The gas will then be sent through a gas pipeline to the national transmission network.
Gas tankers calling at the new LNG terminal will moor ‘side by side’, and it is important to note that the mooring station will be adapted to service two FSRUs.
‘This investment is part of the construction of an energy centre in the Port of Gdańsk. Every zloty spent on the development of access infrastructure brings a high return’, said Dorota Pyć, president of the Port of Gdańsk.
Storm protection
In order for this to happen, a protective breakwater must first be built to protect the terminal.
‘We are just starting its construction. In 2024, we prepared the documentation, obtained all the necessary decisions, including the construction permit and the environmental decision. In the last quarter of last year, we selected the contractor and today we signed the agreement. The first ship with gas is due to arrive at the FSRU terminal at the end of 2027/beginning of 2028’, said Anna Stelmaszyk-Świerczyńska, director of the Maritime Office in Gdynia.
The floating LNG terminal with the breakwater protecting it is crucial for the country’s security.
‘The programme for the floating natural gas regasification terminal in the Gulf of Gdańsk consists of 4 components: the construction of a breakwater, the terminal, the land-sea section and the gas pipeline system stretching from Gdańsk to Włocławek. The total cost is over PLN 5 billion. This helps us to increase Poland’s energy security. We can also increase the commercial possibilities of obtaining gas from various parts of the world. These 6 billion cubic metres of gas will make it possible to cover almost a third of Poland’s total gas consumption. The gas flowing from this terminal is expected to reach virtually every household in the Pomorskie province in just one, two or three hours. Every hour, 700,000 cubic metres will be transmitted through it. The gas will reach our households at the speed of 50-60 km’, said Sławomir Hinc, president of Gaz-System.
