Throughput of Klaipeda port up 23.7%, Ventspils – 6.9%, Riga – 20.4%, Kaliningrad – 13.2%, Liepaja – 2.4 times, Tallinn – down 29.6% in Q1 08
In January-March, 2008, throughput of port Klaipeda totaled 7.89 million tonnes (+23.7 %, year-on-year), the port’s marketing department reports.
Transshipment of oil products amounted to 2.59 million tonnes (+29.9 %), liquefied fertilizers - 368,000 tonnes (similar to January-March 07). Transshipment of raw sugar grew by 4.2 times, agricultural goods - 3.4 times, peat - 1.6 times, timber and timber goods – by 42.7%, ferrous alloys (+41.8%), loose fertilizers – by 31.0%, oil products – by 29.9%, raw materials and processed mineral resources – by 26.3%. in the reported period, transshipment of molasses fell by 43.6%, scrap metal – by 16.2%, ro-ro cargo – by 9.5 % (in tonnage terms), goods made of iron and steel – by 7.0 %.
Container throughput grew by 21.6 % (TEU) while loading of ro-ro cargo remained at the level of the previous. In the first quarter of the year the number of passengers entering the port of Klaipeda by ferry grew by 8.4% to 42,100. In March, 2008, the port’s turnover totaled 2.88 million tonnes. (+ 26.2%).
In January-March, 2008, the port of Ventspils handled 8.36 million tonnes (against 7.82 million tonnes in January-March 07). Loading of liquid cargo grew by 19.7% to 5.72 million tonnes, general cargo – fell by 16% to 0.53 million tonnes, loose and bulk cargo – by 12.5% to 2.11 million tonnes. Transshipment of oil products grew by 26.5% (or 1.04 million tonnes), coal – by 15.1% (or 154, 000 tonnes), grain – by 2.8 times (or by 137,000 tonnes). In the reported period, loading transit oil products amounted to 4.96 million tonnes (+26.5%), loose fertilizers - 0.57 million tonnes (-47.5%). In January-March, loading of containerized cargo totaled 37,000 tonnes (similar to January-March 2007). The port serviced 4,040 passengers (-41.5 %, year-on-year).
The port of Tallinn handled 8.14 million tonnes of cargo (-29.6%). Loading of loose and bulk cargo fell by 68.9 % (or 2.39 million tonnes), liquid bulk cargo – by 15.3 % (or 1.05 million tonnes), general cargo – grew by 1.5 % (or 18,000 tonnes). Liquid bulk cargo accounted for 71.5% of the port’s total throughput.
Transshipment of coal fell by 96.7 % (or 1.96 million tonnes), oil products – by 15.4 % (or1.06 million tonnes), loose fertilizers – by 58.9 % (or 0.32 million tonnes), grain - by -42.2 % (or 0.22 million tonnes).
In the reported period 561 cargo vessels entered the port of Tallinn (against 787 in January-March 07, or –28.7 %).
The port was visited by 1.34 million passengers (against 1.11 million in January-March 07, or +20.5 %).
In Q1 08, the port of Riga handled 7.00 million tonnes (+20.4%, year-on-year). Loading of loose and bulk cargo grew by 37.5%, liquid bulk cargo – by 1.4%. transshipment of loose and bulk cargo totaled 4.63 million tonnes. Loading of coal grew by 0.99 million tonnes (+42.9 %), grain- by 79,000 tonnes (up 3.1 times). Coal accounted for 46.7 % of the port’s total throughput.
Loading of liquid bulk cargo grew by 1.4 % to 1.18 million tonnes. Turnover of oil products has not changed year-on-year.
In the reported period, transshipment of general cargo amounted to 1.19 million tonnes (- 7.1 % , year-on-year) including 0.56 million tonnes of timber (-20.8 %), 0.45 million tonnes of containerized cargo (+7.5 %). In the reported period, the port was visited by 62,400 passengers against 35,900 in January-March 07 (+74.1 %).
In January-March, 2008, the port of Kaliningrad handled 4.35 million tonnes (+13.2%, year-on-year). Transshipment of loose and bulk cargo grew by 53.5 %, liquid bulk cargo – by 7.3 %, general cargo – by 2.4 %.
In Q1 08 transshipment of oil products totaled 2.49 million tonnes (57.3 % of total turnover).
In January-March 08, the port of Liepaja handeld 2.38 million tonnes of cargo (up 2.4 times). Loading of liquid bulk cargo grew 3.6 times, loose and bulk cargo – by 18.9%, general cargo – by 3.3 times (1.13 million tonnes).