In January-June, 2008, the ports of Latvia handled 39.128 million tonnes of cargo (+2.6%, year-on-year), transit policy department of the Communications Ministry reports.
According to Delfi, Riga is approaching the port of Ventspils, which is a leader in Latvia for many years already. The difference of the above ports’ results makes 500,000 tonnes.
In the reported period, Ventspils handled 14.947 million tonnes of cargo (-7.1%, year-on-year), Riga- 14.363 million tonnes (+14.1%, year-on-year).
Throughput of Liepaja totaled 2.237 million tonnes (+10.9%). Minor ports of Latvia handled 649,700 tonnes (+2.6%).