Baltic States – CIS, Cargo, Lithuania, Port, Transport

Photo: Port of Klaipeda

Klaipeda remained the largest port in the Baltics in terms of cargo traffic and held onto its number-four position among all ports on the eastern Baltic coast. 

The Lithuanian port handled 25.919 million tons of cargo during the seven months, down 5.5% year-on-year.

Riga posted a 26.9% drop to 13.665 million tons. Ventspils saw its cargo volumes plunge by 41.5% to 7.826 million tons, and Liepaja recorded a 13% decrease to 3.548 million tons.

Throughput at Lithuania's Butinge oil terminal fell by 20.5% year-on-year to 4.453 million tons of crude.

The Port of Tallinn's cargo handling data for January-July are not yet available. Figures from the Estonian statistics office show that the country's ports handled a total of around 21.6 million tons of cargo during the seven months, down by 0.1 million tons year-on-year. 

Three Russian ports maintained their tonnage lead over all other ports in the eastern part of the Baltic Sea, with cargo volumes down by 1.4% to 61.202 million tons in Ust Luga, down by 11.1% to 31.771 million tons in Primorsk and down by 1.5% to 34.581 million tons in Saint Petersburg.

The port of Kaliningrad registered a 5.8% decline to 6.279 million tons for January-July.