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Liepaja port sees cargo turnover rise 24.4% in January-August
BC, Riga, 19.09.2017.
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Print versionDuring the first eight months of 2017, the stevedore companies based in the southwestern Latvian port of Liepaja reloaded 4.170 million tons of cargo in total, which was a 24.4% rise from the same period a year ago, Liga Ratniece-Kadege, a spokeswoman for the Liepaja Special Economic Zone (SEZ), told LETA.
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In the first eight months of this year Liepaja port also served 929 ships
and 27,689 passengers.
In August, Liepaja port reloaded 495,524 tons of cargo, up 50.6% from last
August.
Bulk cargos – grain and grain products, coal, construction materials,
mineral fertilizers, woodchip – ensured 69.5% of all cargos, general cargos
formed 22.2%, and liquid cargos formed 8.3%.
Ekers Stividors LP demonstrated the largest cargo turnover in August – by
151.2% to 178,073 tons. The second largest turnover was for Liepaja Bulk
Terminal – 118,835 tons, down 8.9% year-on-year.
Terrabalt that also serves Stena Line ferries five times a week, in August
reloaded 77,520 tons of cargo.
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