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Cargo turnover in Baltic ports up 2.6% in first seven months of 2018

BC, Vilniaus, 17.09.2018.Print version
In the first seven months of 2018, all Baltic ports together received and shipped 90.44 mln tons of cargo, which was 2.6% or 2.297 tons more than in the respective period last year, informs LETA/BNS referring to the data released by the Lithuanian Statistical Bureau.

Of all cargos handled by the Baltic ports in January-July of 2018, 42% were reloaded in Latvia, 34.7% in Lithuania and 23.3% in Estonia.


Compared to the first seven of last year, cargo turnover dropped in Latvian ports and grew in Estonian and Lithuanian ports.


The Latvian ports saw their cargo turnover decline 0.6%, or 235,600 tons, to 37.974 mln tons in the first seven months of 2018.


Meanwhile, the ports of Lithuania raised their cargo turnover by 6.7%, or 1.98 mln tons, to 31.409 mln tons, and the Estonian ports reloaded 21.058 mln tons of cargo during the first seven months of this year, up 2.7%, or 553,300 tons year-on-year.


In 2017, all Baltic ports together received and shipped 149.571 mln tons of cargo, up 2.4% from 2016. Of the total cargo turnover in Baltic ports last year, 41.4% were handled in Latvia, 35.4% in Lithuania and 23.3% in Estonia.

 






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