Resumen de Land management in Polish Seaports: legal and economic aspects.
Izabela Kotowska, Michal Plucinski
Land management is one of the most important attributes of an entity which manages a seaport or port complex. Before the social, economic and system transformations took place in Poland in 1989 each major seaport (as regards the ports of Szczecin and Swinoujscie they were considered a seaport complex) had had one state-owned enterprise called Zarzad Portu (Seaport Authority). Not only was it an administrator of the seaport land, but it was the only entity which provided operating services including transshipment and storage on the seaport land. However, it did not control the whole area within the limits of a seaport. Some enclaves of the seaport land were controlled by other state-owned enterprises including shipbuilding industry companies, deep-sea fishing enterprises or industrial plants which used inexpensive raw materials transported by sea. The article presents how the background of European experience and the major national determinants influenced on development in Polish ports models of cooperation between the port management and investors interested in locating his business in the port areas.
