Cargo turnover at the port of Nakhodka was up 1.4% in January-August compared with the same period last year, to 10.72 million tons, PortNews IAA reports with reference to the Port Authority data.
Transshipment of coal, coke, including charge and anthracite rose by 28.9% to 1.94 million tons, while ferrous metals volume declined by 4.5% to 2.97 million tons, shipment of petroleum products shrank by 1.8% to 4.84 million tons, non-ferrous metals fell 12% to 224,600 tons.
Eight-month container throughput fell to 1,46 thousand TEUs, a fourfold drop from Jan-Aug, 2009.
In August, the port demonstrated a 1.3-percent gain from last year’s August, to 1.32 million tons.
Port of Nakhodka is based in the northern Bay of Nakhodka. The year-round navigation Port of Nakhodka is linked via Trans-Siberian Railroad with the entire rail network of Russia and Western Europe.