Traffic
Gdansk was connected to central and southern Poland as well as Slovakia and the Czech Republic via the A1 freeway in 2013.
The city can be reached by rail directly from the main Polish cities, from and to Warsaw by the Warszawa-Gdańsk railroad line, and in the direction of Szczecin by the Gdańsk-Stargard railroad line. Since June 6, 2012, a through connection to and from Berlin has also been offered again with the EuroCity 55. All long-distance trains also stop at the Wrzeszcz and Oliwa district stations.
There is a suburban railroad (SKM Szybka Kolej Miejska w Trójmieście) connecting Gdansk with Sopot, Gdynia and Wejherowo. From Wrzeszcz, the PKM suburban railroad connects the city with the airport.
In 2015, the Gdańsk Wrzeszcz-Gdańsk Osowa railroad line was opened.
Inner-city public transport is handled by SKM, the Gdansk streetcar and a dense network of bus lines on Gdansk's streets.
Since Poland's accession to the EU, Gdansk Airport has been growing strongly. It is the third largest airport in Poland (after Warsaw and Krakow; as of 2014). In 2010, it handled over 2.23 million passengers. It is served by over 40 national and international airlines, including Lufthansa (from Frankfurt and Munich) or the low-cost airlines Ryanair and Wizz Air.
The port of Gdansk is currently the largest Polish port. In 2012, it handled a total of 26.9 million tons. Furthermore, the city can be reached via a ferry connection from Sweden (Nynäshamn).
The bridge Most 100-lecia Odzyskania Niepodległości Polski was created in 2018.
From smaller inner-city piers on the Motlawa river, excursion boats operate regularly mainly on the tourist routes to Westerplatte, Sopot and Gdynia (lines F1 and F2). Since June 2012, two new tourist and inner-city ferry lines have been operating regularly on the Motlau from the beginning of June to the beginning of September, connecting the city center from the Poggenpfuhl pier (Żabi Kruk) with the Westerplatte (Line F5) and the Fish Market (Targ Rybny) with the mouth of the Vistula (Narodowe Centrum Żeglarstwa) (Line F6).
Gdansk is connected to several official international long-distance cycling routes, such as the Baltic Coastal Cycle Route, which circles the Baltic Sea once, and the Iron Curtain Trail, which runs along the former "Iron Curtain" from Norway to the Black Sea.
Resident companies (selection)
Gdansk has been known as a trading city since the Hanseatic period mainly because of its favorable location on the Baltic Sea. The port still plays a major role in the Polish economy with 23.3 million tons of cargo handled (2004). The city's main industries are shipbuilding (e.g. Gdansk Shipyard - Stocznia Gdańsk, Remontowa SA repair and offshore service yard, Northern Shipyard SA), petrochemical and chemical industries (e.g. Grupa LOTOS SA), and more recently high technologies such as electronics (e.g. Intel or WS OY (Young Digital Poland)), telecommunications and information technology (e.g. Wirtualna Polska, Lido Technologies). The pharmaceutical industry, food industry (e.g. PepsiCo (USA), Dr. Oetker (Germany), Fazer OY (Finland) and Baltic Malt/Malteurop (France)) and cosmetics sector are also gaining importance.
Tourism
Gdansk is the starting point of the EuroVelo 9 cycle route (Baltic Sea-Adriatic Sea Route or Amber Route, Polish Szlak bursztynowy), which runs from Gdansk through Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria and Slovenia to Pula in Croatia. The EuroVelo 10 (Baltic Sea Cycle Route or Hanseatic Route, Polish Obwód Hanzeatycki), which is laid out around the Baltic Sea, also passes through Gdansk.
Tourism is an important source of income with about 1.5 million tourists annually.
Education
In Gdansk there are, among others, ten universities with about 60,000 students and about 10,000 graduates annually (as of 2001). These are
- University of Gdansk (Uniwersytet Gdański) (33,000 students)
- Gdansk University of Technology (Politechnika Gdańska) (18,000 students)
- Gdansk Medical University (Gdański Uniwersytet Medyczny)
- Gdansk University of Physical Education (Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego im. Jędrzeja Śniadeckiego)
- Gdansk Academy of Music (Akademia Muzyczna im. Stanisława Moniuszki)
- Academy of Arts Gdansk (Akademia Sztuk Pięknych)
- Ateneum - Szkoła Wyższa
- Gdańska Wyższa Szkoła Humanistyczna
- Gdańska Wyższa Szkoła Administracji
- Wyższa Szkoła Bankowa
- Wyższa Szkoła Społeczno-Ekonomiczna
- Wyższa Szkoła Turystyki i Hotelarstwa w Gdańsku
- Wyższa Szkoła Zarządzania and
- Polish Academy of Sciences, Gdansk Regional Branch (Polska Akademia Nauk, Oddział w Gdańsku).
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