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Baltic ports see 4.1% rise in cargo turnover in 9 months

BC, Riga, 01.11.2017.Print version
All Baltic ports together handled 112.499 million tons of cargo in January-September this year, up 4.1% or 4.395 million tons from the same period in 2016, informs LETA, according to the data released by the Latvian Central Statistical Bureau.

Of all cargos handled by the Baltic ports in the first nine months of this year, 42.4% were reloaded in Latvia, 34.5% in Lithuania and 23.1% in Estonia.

 

Compared to the first nine months of 2016, all three Baltic states showed growth of cargo turnover at their ports in January-September 2017.

 

The cargo turnover of the Latvian ports rose 3.9% or 1.788 million tons year-on-year to 47.712 million tons in January-September this year.

 

Lithuanian ports raised cargo turnover by 6.7% or 2.455 million tons to 38.854 million tons. In Estonia, the ports' annual cargo turnover was up 0.6% or 152,500 tons to 25.933 million tons in January-August 2017.

 

The Lithuanian port of Klaipeda led other Baltic ports by cargo turnover in January-September this year, as it reloaded 31.4 million tons, up five% from the first nine months of 2016.

 

Latvia's Riga port was in the second place with 25.491 million tons of cargo reloaded in January-September 2017, down 5.1% year-on-year, and another Latvian port, Ventspils, was third with 16.222 million tons, which was a rise by 15.5% from the first nine months of 2016.

 

In 2016, all Baltic ports together received and shipped 145.943 million tons of cargo, down 2.8% or 4.196 million 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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