As is our tradition, our staff members, Katarzyna Stachniak and Wojtek Moskal, have arrived in Longyearbyen to prepare the storage facilities for the next exchange of equipment shipments for Polish scientific teams conducting research on Spitsbergen this summer.
On June 11, 2026, unloading of the Horyzont II began in Longyearbyen.
The vessel departed from Gdynia
on 1 June, delivering supplies and cargo to the year-round Polish Polar Station Hornsund of the Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, before proceeding to our facility, the BERA Centre in Longyearbyen.
This time, we received approximately 33 pallets of cargo, along with dozens of smaller shipments consisting of crates, barrels, and boxes belonging to various scientific teams.
These included polar expeditions heading to seasonal field stations such as the Nicolaus Copernicus University Polar Station on Spitsbergen (Kaffiøyra), the Adam Mickiewicz University Polar Station in Poznań (Petuniabukta), the Stanisław Baranowski Polar Station of the University of Wrocław on Spitsbergen, as well as cargo for research expeditions from Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin and the Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
We are now awaiting the arrival of the individual scientific teams, who will be collecting their research equipment and all materials necessary for living and working in the field. These teams will continue to arrive at the BERA Centre from June to September, where operations will be coordinated on-site by Wojtek Moskal throughout the season.
We kindly remind all users to notify us in advance of their planned arrival and to communicate any infrastructure requirements at the BERA Centre by email or telephone, and, in particular, to register their planned storage and logistical requirements using the application forms available on the website.
