ORLEN Neptun and the Szczecin and Świnoujście Seaports Authority have signed a letter of intent on the potential expansion of the Świnoujście Offshore Terminal, Poland’s first installation terminal for offshore wind farms. The document was signed exactly one year after the terminal began operating in June 2025.
The terminal serves as the main logistics base for ORLEN Group’s second-phase offshore wind projects, Baltic East and Baltic West. It also handles external operators, including foreign clients in the Baltic Sea region; its customers to date include Ocean Winds and Smulders. According to the company, the facility recorded strong market interest during its first twelve months of operation.
The letter of intent is a first step toward a possible expansion that would complement the terminal’s existing logistics capacity and modernise port infrastructure. Whether the project moves to the next stage will depend on the results of business analyses and the ability to secure financing.
“The letter of intent on expanding the installation terminal in Świnoujście is an important signal that, as a country, we are ready to develop our capabilities further,” said Energy Minister Miłosz Motyka, framing offshore wind as an investment in energy independence and security. ORLEN Neptun President Janusz Bil said the planned expansion responds to expected demand as offshore wind projects on the Baltic accumulate in the coming years. ZMPSiŚ President Jarosław Siergiej said the ports authority had already built key access infrastructure in Świnoujście under an EU-funded project and had begun planning a second stage.
The terminal combines installation-terminal and marshalling-port functions. Its infrastructure can handle the latest jack-up and heavy-lift vessels and projects with turbines of around 15 MW and above, including transformer-station components weighing up to nearly 3,000 tonnes, with a quay load capacity of up to 50 t/m². Rail, road, ferry and air links allow it to serve projects in German, Swedish and Danish waters. According to ORLEN, 95 Polish companies worked on the terminal’s construction and more than 20 local firms now provide services at the site.
