Throughput of Klaipeda port up 20.5% to 15.82 mln t in H1 08

In January-June, 2008, the port of Klaipeda handled 15.82 million tonnes of cargo (+20.5%, year-on-year), the company reports. In the reported period, transshipment of oil products amounted to 5.17 million tonnes (+33.3%, year-on-year), dry loose and bulk cargo – 5.062 million tonnes (+34%, year-on-year) including 0.62 million tonnes of grain (up 2.2 times), fertilizers – over 3.16 million tonnes. Transshipment of containers grew by 20.8%, year-on-year, ro-ro cargo – down by 4.4%.

In January-June 2008, Butinge terminal handled 4.38 million tonnes of crude oil (up 1.9 times, year-on-year).  In the reported period, the terminal handled 43 vessels (against 23 vessels in January-June 2007).

Klaipeda port (Lithuania) is the northernmost ice – free port on the Eastern coast of the Baltic Sea.