Throughput of Klaipeda Port and Būtingės terminal (Lithuania) up 4.2% to 25.24 mln t in Jan-July’13

In the 7-moth period, Klaipeda Port and Būtingės terminal (Lithuania) handled 25.24 mln t of cargo (+4.2%, year-on-year), the seaport authority says. The port’s results excluding Būtingės terminal has remained almost unchanged – 19.95 mln t. 

Transshipment of crude oil climbed by 22.8% to 5.29 mln t, oil products – up 1.4% to 4.84 mln t, liquid fertilizers (including chemicals) – up 13.7% to 855,200 tonnes, agricultural goods – down 19% to 1.33 mln t, dry fertilizers – down 11% to 4.31, sugar – down 16.4% to 241,820 tonnes, construction materials – up 23.1% to 1.2 mln t, ore – down 24.6% to 406,560 t, scrap metal – down 9.2% to 183,640 t, timber cargo – down 11.5% to 296,290 t, iron and steel – down 39.8% to 122,820 t.

The port’s container throughput climbed by 5.6% to 229,440 t, Ro-Ro cargo – down 0.7% to 151,258 units. The number of calls declined by 2.2% to 3,846 calls. The port serviced 196,655 passengers (+1.2%).

Klaipeda State Seaport is the northernmost ice–free port on the Eastern coast of the Baltic Sea. It is the most important and biggest Lithuanian transport hub, connecting sea, land and railway routes from East to West. The port’s throughput (including Butinge terminal) made 43.761 mln t in 2012.