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Freeport of Riga registers 0.5% reduction in cargo turnover in 9 months
BC, Riga, 08.10.2015.
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Print versionIn the first nine months of 2015, cargo turnover at the Freeport of Riga decreased by 0.5% to 30.02 million tons, as compared with the respective period of 2014, reports LETA, according to the port's information.
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Liquid cargo turnover increased by 10.9% to 8.2 million tons.
Meanwhile, bulk cargo turnover reduced by 0.8% to 17.1 million tons, while general cargo turnover reduced by 12.7% to 4.7 million tons.
Furthermore, passenger turnover fell by 32% to 421,104 passengers in the first nine months of the year. This mostly due to the fact that Tallink now operates its Riga-Stockholm ferry route every other day, not every day as before.
The number of cruise ship passengers increased by 11.7% to 66,501.
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