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Lithuania's Klaipeda port continues leading Baltic states by container throughput

BC, Vilnius, 17.10.2016.Print version
The Lithuanian seaport of Klaipeda continues leading the ports of other Baltic countries in terms of container loading volumes in the first nine months of 2016, informs LETA/BNS.

In January-September period, the port handled nearly 323,300 TEU, up by 10.7%, from 292,000 TEU, from the same period last year, the port's authority said.


At the Riga port in Latvia, TEU traffic grew by 4.3% to 276,900, while Estonia's Tallinn saw a decline by 6.6% to 148,800 and Latvia's Liepaja reported a drop by 37.4% to 1,352 over the period.


In 2015, the Klaipeda port handled a total of 392,700 TEU, down by 12.8%, from 450,400 TEU, in the year before.

 






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