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Q1 loading at Lithuania's Klaipeda port up 2.8%
BC, Vilnius, 12.04.2017.
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Print versionCargo traffic at the Lithuanian state seaport of Klaipeda was 10.303 mln tons in the first quarter of this year, up by 2.8%, from 10.021 mln tons, in the January-March period of 2016, the port's authority said.
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In March alone, the cargo traffic declined by 1.5% to 3.46 mln
tons.
Over the first three months of this year, liquid cargo
volumes fell by 16.6 % to 2.682 mln tons. General cargo volumes was off
2.1 % to 2.981 mln tons and bulk cargo volumes jumped by 23.4 % to
4.64 mln tons from the same period last year.
In March alone, liquid cargo throughput declined by 27.3 % to 842,900 tons, general cargo volumes fell by 7.8 % to 1.071 mln tons and bulk cargo soared by 29.6 % to 1.546 mln tons
y-o-y.
Some 1,622 vessels arrived in the Klaipeda port this year,
down from 1,625 in the same period of 2016.
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