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an hour, and four 7-ton coaling bridges. Two coal tips, one of 5 tons and the other of 7 tons, are owned by the port authority and are located on the coal pier. The fish pier, the English wharf and the Silesian wharf are found in the south basin. A small auxiliary basin used at present by the Danzig Shipyard is in the northwest section. Here is located the shipyard’s repair shops and a floating dock with a lift- ing capacity of 3000 tons. Next to the shipyard there is a slip for the cutters belonging to the Sea Fishery institute. Sheds for the storage and sale of fish are provided on English wharf and are equipped with their own refrigerating and storage plants and space for sorting, storing and selling both fresh and frozen fish. South of the fishing pier, the Presi- dent’s basin is given over to tourist and coastal traffic. Pilot’s wharf, on the south side of the inner harbor, houses the of- fice of the harbor master and port shed No. 1, the latter equipped with two portal cranes of 5-ton capacity each, This shed is utilized for stor- ing general merchandise and is com- posed of two divisions: the first is occupied by the railway customs agency and is used for storing dutia- ble goods; it is thus really a public customs warehouse. The second sec- tion of the shed is used for storing © Loading a Pol- ish built loco- motive into the hold OF. a Gdynia-America vessel at the port of Gdynia. For delivery to the State Rail- ways of Morocco 2 20 bulk cargoes such as artificial fer- tilizers. Largest of all port basins is Mar- shal Pilsudski’s basin, behind pilot’s wharf, It includes Indian, Rotter- dam and Polish wharves, On the Polish wharf are a. number of ware- houses used for transshipment and storage of general cargo. Good Port Facilities The port refrigeration plant, the second largest of its kind in the world, was built in 1930 on the Pol- ish wharf, alongside government shed No. III. The total storage space in the plant is 150,600 square feet and the area of refrigerated space is 75,300 square feet. In this ultra- modern plant, the refrigerated cham- bers can accommodate 700 carloads of perishable goods needing specially low temperatures, such as bacon, but- ter, poultry, eggs and frozen meats. Inside the plant the railway cars are unloaded and the goods conveyed to ships: by a special 1%%-ton crane, Thanks to these installations transshipment of goods is protected - from rain, dust, and changes of tem- perature. Low charges for storage and refrigeration permit extensive exploitation. A provisional slaugh- terhouse for poultry and a labora- tory for testing samples of export butter are located next to the refrig- erating plant. Fourteen portal jib traveling MARINE REVIEW—October, 1934 cranes with a capacity of from 1% to 3 tons, are used to handle cargo on the Polish wharf. Five portal jib cranes of the same capacity are used. on the Rotterdam wharf, Manufacturing industries, so far, have been concentrated chiefly on the Indian wharf. Prominent among them is the rice husking plant, the first large industrial enterprise or- ganized in Gdynia, and the largest in the port. With its equipment, the plant can handle over 150,000 tons of raw rice a year; most of it is im- ported from the Rangoon, British Indies, some from the United States. About one-fourth of the rice pro- duced is exported to the Scandinavian and Baltic countries, and to Czecho- slovakia, Rumania, Hungary, Ger- many, England and the Levant. So mechanized is this modern plant, that in the entire five-story building only five workmen are employed. Inside of 25 minutes, a grain of raw rice travels through all the stories of the building, during its journey being subjected to 16 different machines and finally reaching the sack without being touched by a human hand. The oil mill, another large manu- facturing enterprise, is situated next to the rice-husking plant. Besides the necessary manufacturing installa- tions, the mill is equipped with a large silo of 6500 tons capacity, with modern pneumatic and belt convey- ors, and oil-cake warehouses. Such oils as palm oil, paint oil, linseed, sunflower seed and machine oil are produced, chiefly for the home mar- ket. The by-product, oil cake, is ex- ported. On the site behind the oil mill, the Polish government intends to construct a modern grain elevator with a capacity of 15,000 tons for export purposes. On the harbor territory there are special facilities such as coal and oil bunkering stations, fish hall and re- frigerator, fish preserving establish- ments, molasses reservoirs, grain silo, floating dock, sanitation water pipes, harbor ambulance and the necessary pilot and tugboats. To take care of the continued in- crease of traffic through Gdynia, A Artist’s draw- ing of one of the two new passenger liners now under con- struction and to enter the service of the Gdynia - Amer- ica Line in the summer of 1935 2