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The Covid-19 pandemic has drastically affected the transport sector,
because of the restrictions introduced to limit the spread of the threat. They
concerned primarily passenger traffic, but trade in goods also faced completely new
challenges, related to increased consumption and the dynamic development of e-
commerce on the one hand and restrictions related to the pandemic and sealing
borders on the other. One of the most susceptible to fluctuations in international
trade is the maritime economy, which has been analysed in this article. It was
checked how the global threat affected sea traffic in terms of gross weight of goods
handled in main ports. The aim of the study was to characterize the impact of the
pandemic on sea transport depending on the type of ship and to evaluate the current
state of sea transport in the context of the level shaped by forecasts based on
observations from before the coronavirus pandemic. The authors' assumption was
to check whether the rail transport market has already reached the level it could
reach in the absence of the virus threat. The use of a polynomial function was
proposed for the study. Time series containing observations up to the outbreak of
the pandemic and forecasts based on them, as well as time series containing
additional observations from the pandemic period were analysed. The study results obtained allowed to conclude how the global crisis caused by the Covid-19
pandemic affected the cargo traffic in the sea transport, expressed by the mass of
goods transshipped in major ports, depending on the individual types of ships.
