Freight volumes transshipped at the ports of Estonia in January 2010 increased by 21% from the same period last year, to 3.68 million tons of commodities. In comparison with December 2009 the goods shipment volumes in January dropped by 3%, RZD-Partner.Ru reported citing the Department of Statistics Estonia data.

In January 2010 the ports loaded onto ships 2.970.000 tons and off-loaded 708.299 tons of cargo. As compared with January 2009, the loaded volumes rose 21%, unloaded - by 22%. In December 2009, the ports showed nearly 3 million tons loaded and 807.000 tons off-loaded.

It has been reported earlier that cargo turnover at the Port of Tallinn (Estonia) for January 2010 amounted to 3.113.800 tons, a 25.2% rise from the same month a year earlier.