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Thursday, 28.03.2024, 23:36
Klaipeda port raises cargo traffic by 4.6% in 8 months
In August alone, cargo traffic through the port increased by 13.2%
year-on-year to 3.611 million tons.
"We had a very good month in August. The handling of oil products is
recovering, which gives substantial hope, and we expect the loading operations
to fully go back to last year's level this year. Fluctuations of general cargo
have been observed due to a decline in the volume of metal products and raw
materials at the Klaipeda port," the port's CEO Arvydas Vaitkus told a news conference on September 11th.
In his words, the cargo handling results do not reflect the loading of
grains, as the loading of these products should increase in September.
Liquid cargo volumes fell by 7.2% to 7.5 million tons in the first eight
months of 2017 year-on-year, while general cargo volumes went down by 2.3% to
nearly 8 million tons and bulk cargo volumes jumped by 19.5% to 12.1 million
tons.