Last year traffic of all cargo types increased. Ferry owners are particularly happy with the approximately 20-percent growth in the transportation of trucks. Despite competition from low-cost airlines, passenger transportation rose as well, by around 7 percent, coupled with a 12-percent increase of the number of passenger cars carried on board.
Unity Line, which operates the line between Świnoujście and Ystad, carried around 144,000 trucks on its ferries, a rise of over 18 percent compared to 2005. Polska Żegluga Bałtycka (PŻB) took 33,600 trucks sets, nearly 23 percent more. The number of trucks carried on the single ferry from Gdańsk to Nynäshamn near Stockholm grew from 9,600 to 11,600. With its two ferries traveling between Gdynia and Karlskrona, Stena Line took 86,800 freight units (over 19 percent more than in 2005).

Świnoujście is the only Polish ferry terminal to accommodate trains. This sector too reported an increase last year, from 16,000 to 20,000 carriages.

Passenger traffic increased last year as well. Around 763,000 people passed through the Świnoujście terminal, 150,000 traveled between Gdańsk and Nynäshamn and over 415,000 used Stena Lines ferries, an increase of 14 percent. More passengers meant more passenger cars. In 2006, some 150,000 cars traveled through the terminal in Świnoujście, 67,500 in Gdynia and 41,000 in Gdańsk.

Forecasts anticipate further dynamic development on the Baltic market, with increased traffic between Central and Eastern European countries and Scandinavia.