Maritime port Nowy Świat, Maritime port in Gmina Sztutowo, Poland.
Maritime port Nowy Świat is a protective harbour for the 1,300-metre shipping canal through the Vistula Spit, opened on 17 September 2022. It has an eastern breakwater 943 m long that also encloses the harbour to the north, a western breakwater 568 m long, and quays of 250.5 m and 71 m. The harbour basin is 5.0 m deep, the fairway 5.5 m, and a turning circle of 200 m diameter lies before the lock.
The port is new: the 1,300-metre shipping canal with its lock was built from 2019 to 2022 and opened on 17 September 2022. The Gdańsk consortium Mosty Gdańsk – Projmors planned the harbour, and Wojciech Żurawski became its first harbour master, directly under the maritime office in Gdynia. Its name comes from the abandoned settlement Nowy Świat (Neue Welt), once part of the Vogelsang commune about 100 metres west of the lock.
The name comes from the vanished settlement Nowy Świat ("New World") on the Vistula Spit, once part of the Vogelsang (Skowronki) commune about 100 m west of the lock. The harbour is a protective port for the shipping canal through the spit, opened on 17 September 2022, and its first harbour master was Wojciech Żurawski.
The harbour lies at the eastern end of the 1,300 m shipping canal cut through the Vistula Spit, reached from the Gulf of Gdańsk through the lock. The basin is 5.0 m deep and the fairway 5.5 m, with a 200 m turning circle before the lock entrance. Approach is marked by sector and mole lights; the harbourmaster's office, a three-storey building at the lock, also houses border guard and customs posts.
The harbour takes its name from Nowy Świat ("New World"), a vanished settlement about 100 metres west of the lock that once belonged to the village of Vogelsang (Skowronki). The harbour captain's office is a three-storey building at the lock, also housing border guard and customs posts. The entrance from the Bay of Gdańsk is marked by sector and breakwater lights.
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