Editing Pirates of the Baltic Sea (section)

====Szczecin and Świnoujście====

The Ports of Szczecin and Świnoujście are managed by a single authority, creating one of the largest port complexes at the Baltic Sea. The Port of Świnoujście is located at the Świna strait, on Wolin and Usedom islands, and has passenger terminal. The Port of Szczecin is located at the Oder and Regalica rivers off the Szczecin Lagoon. The port includes a shipyard, a free trade zone within the port area, and a handful of corporate enclaves.

The ports and both towns have seen a number of engagements between the Buccaneers and corporate security teams. Plenty of private vessels dock in Świnoujście, and Buccaneers tend to slip in among them in order to spy for targets in corporate shipping out of Szczecin or pull off an operation against a corporate enclave there, usually targeting data in one of the R&D centers. Due to this, private security teams keep an eye out for arriving Buccaneers to deal with them before they cause trouble.

Since both the Buccaneers and the security teams consider the area important for them, they both try to avoid collateral damage when they clash. The locals have come to consider the engagements as a sort of entertainment, with people gathering to watch and the police concentrating on keeping the bystanders out of the line of fire rather than breaking up the clash. These engagements have even featured on TV series and video games made in Poland.

Of the cities, Szczecin, with over 400 000 inhabitants, is much larger than Świnoujście, with a bit over 40 000 inhabitants.