On the premises of the Port Free Zone in the Port of Gdansk, a large refrigeration plant ‘Deep Sea Fishing Port Gdansk’ will be constructed, designed for handling and storing fish products.
By way of a tender process announced by the Port of Gdansk Authority SA, the Warsaw-based company North Atlantic Fish Producers Organization has been selected for the implementation of the project.
The plant will have an area of approximately 8,000m2. The total area of land under the lease amounts to over 1.5ha. Acting in line with its powers, the Port of Gdansk Authority SA has signed a land tenancy agreement for a period of 10 years with the North Atlantic Fish Producers Organization. As the investor is interested in a longer term of lease, a petition has been filed with the Ministry of State Treasury requesting approval of extending the lease to 30 years.
According to the agreement, the North Atlantic Fish Producers Organization will make an investment of at least PLN 40 million (approximately €10 milliion) in the construction of the new plant.
The company North Atlantic Fish Producers Organization in Warsaw was established in 2003. It comprises Polish deep sea fishing companies Atlantex and Arctic Navigations that operate trawlers/fish processing vessels “Andres Gdy-38”, “Wiesbaden Gdy-157” and “Polonus Gdy-36”. These trawlers fish in the North Atlantic area for redfish, shrimps, cod and mackerel, using the fishing quota allocated to Poland, and shrimps and processed fish are traded on the European Union market. The North Atlantic Fish Producers Organization is Poland’s first fishing industry organisation recognised by the European Union, and is a member of the European Association of Fish Producers Organizations.
