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The Sea Agency in Gdynia was founded in 1951 to represent foreign shipping lines, shipowners and insurance clubs (P&I), as well as to provide ship agency services. With time, its specialisation was expanded to forwarding services and job agency for Polish seafarers.
The 1990s brought the development of rail and air forwarding, storage and distribution, as well as customs support, which enabled comprehensive handling of cargo in international transport.
Due to the reorganisation of a series of state-owned and private companies related to the sea industry, the Minister of Shipping made the decision to replace the above organisations with the newly founded state-owned company called Morska Agencja w Gdyni.
Morska Agencja w Gdyni started operations. Office located at the then Marine Station in Gdynia.
MAG entirely took over the support of the ships of the domestic shiponrs – Polskie Linie Oceaniczne and Polska Żegluga Morska and the vessels chartered by Polsko-Chińskie Towarzystwo Okrętowe Chipolbrok.
In 1963, Zygmunt Śmigielski, later the long-term president of the Board of MAG started his career in MAG.
MAG represents 64 regular foreign shipping lines and 48 foreign insurance clubs.
Moving to 8 Pulaski Street in the very center of Gdynia.
Zygmunt Śmigielski and his closest collaborators, supported by MAG employees, conducted one of the first successful state-owned company privatisations. Morska Agencja w Gdyni became an employee-owned company and was renamed to Morska Agencja Gdynia.
The launch of the London office, which handles the acquisition and mustering of Polish crews on ships of foreign shipowners.
The company moved to a comprehensively reconstructed facility of the former HANDLOMOR company, ul. Tadeusza Wendy 15, which was purchased by the company.
MAG receives ISO 9001 certification.
MAG received the award in the first edition of the Przedsiębiorstwo Fair Play contest, awarded by the Polish Chamber of Commerce.
Morska Agencja Gdynia continued to expand its operations to further transport and logistics services, customs handling, storage and rail forwarding.
The Management Board made the decision to purchase the land at the Port in Darłowo, where the MAG Terminal was under construction. Over the following years, the numbers of MAG branches increased. New offices were founded across Poland and in Constanca, Romania. MAG became the leader on the Polish forwarding market, while retaining its former character – the perfect combination of experience and modern perspective on the changing market.
After working 55 years at MAG, Zygmunt Smigielski is taking a well-deserved retirement.
Morska Agencja Gdynia, holding many awards and recognised by business partners, developed the MAG Centrum concept, which connected companies that provided broadly understood port, logistics, transport and offshore services.
MAG celebrated its 70th anniversary. As an experienced 70-year old, it was a 30-year old thriving employee-owned company that retained its leading position on the agency market, supporting the most ships at all Polish sea ports. Our own transport fleet travelled hundreds of thousands of kilometres more every year. The company already owned 25 thousand m² of warehouses and its own specialised handling equipment.
Our team of specialists in every sector formed a strong team, which resulted in Morska Agencja Gdynia leadership among the companies in the sea services industry in Poland.
