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Freight handling by Estonian ports up 20% on year in October

BC, Tallinn, 20.11.2018.Print version
Estonian ports handled 3.4 mln tons of cargoes in October 2018, 19.5% more than during the same period last year, reported LETA/BNS.

Loading of goods grew 20.2% year on year to 2.2 mln tons and unloading rose 18% to 1.1 mln tons in October, it appears from data provided by Statistics Estonia.


Estonian ports handled 30.2 mln tons of cargoes in the first ten months of 2018, 5.2% more than during the same period last year. At that, the loading of goods grew 7.3% year on year to 20.5 mln tons and unloading increased 1% to 9.7 mln tons.


In 2017, Estonian ports handled 34.8 mln tons of cargo, which is 3%, or 1.2 mln tons more than the year before. A total of 23.5 mln tons of goods were loaded and 11.3 mln tons of goods were unloaded in Estonian ports in 2017, which means that 4 % more goods were loaded and 2% more goods were unloaded than in 2016. 


In 2017, 114 more cargo ships called at Estonian ports than in 2016. The average gross tonnage of cargo vessels was roughly 11,100 tons.






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