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Riga led other Latvian ports by cargo turnover

BC, Riga, 18.10.2016.Print version
In the first nine months of 2016, Latvian ports reloaded 45.924 mln tons of cargo, down 12.9 % from the same period in 2015, the Latvian Transport Ministry said LETA.

Bulk cargos prevailed among cargos handled by Latvian ports in the first nine months of 2016, accounting for 22.491 mln tons and dropping 8.6% from January-September 2015. Coal accounted for 11.202 mln tons of all bulk cargos handled in the said period, down 23.4% year-on-year, chemical bulk cargos rose 11 % to 2.442 mln tons, and woodchip cargos surged 28.1% to 936,500 tons.


Handling of liquid cargos fell 22.5% y-o-y to 15.552 mln tons in the first nine months of this year, with oil products prevailing among liquid cargos and dropping 22.8% to 14.946 mln tons. Crude oil handling at the Latvian ports shrank 44.6% from January-September 2015 to 42,400 tons.


General cargos fell 1.7% y-o-y to 7.881 mln tons in January-September this year. This amount included 2.923 mln tons of container cargos, up 1.1%, 2.558 mln tons of timber, down 5.9%, and 2.066 mln tons of roll on/roll off cargos, up 2.7% compared to the nine-month period in 2015.


Riga led other Latvian ports by cargo turnover in the first nine months of this year, having handled 26.873 mln tons, which was 10.5% less than in the same period in 2015. The north-western Latvian port of Ventspils came second with 14.04 mln tons reloaded in January-September 2016, down 20.5% y-o-y, and Liepaja in south-western Latvia was third with 3.871 mln tons, down 2.3% y-o-y.


Among Latvia's small ports, Skulte had the largest cargo turnover in the first nine months of 2016 at 537,100 tons, which was a 23.4% rise from the same period in 2015. The total amount of cargos reloaded at Latvia's small ports in January-September this year was 1.141 mln tons, down 25.6% year-on-year.


The Latvian ports handled 52.708 mln tons of cargo in the first nine months of 2015 and 69.569 mln tons in the full year 2015, which was 6.2% less than a year before.

 






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