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Cargo turnover of Baltic ports up 5.8% in four months; the Riga port was in second place

BC, Riga, 24.05.2017.Print version
All Baltic ports together handled 52.584 mln tons of cargo in January-April this year, up 5.8% or 2.878 mln tons from the same period in 2016, according to the data released by the Latvian Central Statistical Bureau writes LETA.

Of all cargos handled by the Baltic ports in the first four months of this year, 46.6% were reloaded in Latvia, 30.8% in Lithuania and 22.6% in Estonia.

Compared to the first four months of 2016, cargo turnover grew in Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian ports.


The cargo turnover of the Latvian ports rose 10.5% or 2.321 mln tons to 24.528 mln tons in January-April this year.


Meanwhile, Lithuanian ports raised cargo turnover by 0.8% or 130,000 tons to 16,179 mln tons. In Estonia, the ports' annual cargo turnover was up 3.7% or 427,200 tons to 11.877 mln tons in January-April 2017.


The Lithuanian port of Klaipeda led other Baltic ports by cargo turnover in January-April this year, as it reloaded 13.597 mln tons, up 2.3% from the first four months of 2016.


The Freeport of Riga was in second place with 12.225 mln tons of cargo reloaded in January-April 2017, down 0.3% year-on-year, and another Latvian port, Ventspils, was third with 9.445 mln tons, which was a 25.1% rise from the first four months of 2016.


In 2016, all Baltic ports together received and shipped 145.943 mln tons of cargo, down 2.8% or 4.196 mln tons from 2015. Of the total cargo turnover in Baltic ports last year, 43.2% were handled in Latvia, 33.8% in Lithuania and 23 % in Estonia.






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