Cargo turnover at Primorsk seaport up 2%, to 6.64 million tons

Freight traffic through the port of Primorsk (Leningrad Oblast) in January 2010 rose by 2 percent from the same period last year, reaching 6.64 million tons of handled commodities. The volume includes 6.2 million tons of crude oil and 0.4 million of diesel fuel, PortNews reports quoting the harbormaster.

Primorsk Commercial Sea Port is the top Russian North-West seaport transshipping exported oil and petroleum products. Port throughput in 2009 was reported at 79.157.2 tons of oil and diesel fuel. Last year 1.869 ships called at the port, 935 of them passing inward and 934 outward the harbor.