
Rafał Zahorski
Management Representative for Ports Development, Ports of Szczecin-Świnoujście
An expert in the field of TSL, particularly specialized in maritime economy, inland navigation, rail and intermodal transport. Long-term practitioner in foreign trade, supply chain management and broadly understood international business. His latest professional specialization is renewable energy, related offshore wind energy and distributed energy based on the fuel of the future, i.e. green hydrogen.
Author of many publications and over 200 industry articles, active commentator, trainer, academic lecturer, consultant and active participant and panelist at many industry conferences.
Winner of industry awards both corporate and individual, including from journalists of the Szczecin Gazeta Wyborcza he received the honorary title and statuette of Szczupak 2021 and winner of the golden badge of the West Pomeranian Griffin.
He was the originator and head of the team that carried out the first ever Polish import (he personally participated in the towing from the UK to Poland) and the historic restoration of the historic seagoing vessel THPV Bembridge from 1938. The unit is a very important nautical monument not only because it is the oldest British sea pilot cutter in the world – the first and last in its class, also because of its participation in Dunkirk 1940 and Normandy 1944, but also because it was created on the basis of whaling ships as the progenitor and test unit of an entire new class of warships, corvettes, created to protect Atlantic convoys during WWII. The unit is currently moored in Szczecin and serves as the company’s headquarters, conference center and maritime museum. In the years 2005-2015 he built, maintained and administered a network of 8 webcams showing the entire port in Szczecin on the Internet – he installed the cameras on the highest buildings of the Szczecin port and the tower of the National Museum – they allowed every user from anywhere in the world to control them independently and see every nook and cranny of the port even in 400x zoom. The port in Szczecin was then the most visible seaport in the world.
From the end of 2017 to the end of 2023, the proxy of the Marshal of the WZP for maritime economy and inland navigation and a lecturer in practice at the Higher School of Management and Banking in Poznań.