The volume of coal transshipment through Ventspils-based Baltic Coal Terminal in January-September more than doubled from a year earlier, to 3,087,668 tons, the stevedoring company said.
In September, coal shipments from the terminal also rose by nearly two times, to 342,220 tons.
Baltic Coal Terminal is a JV of two companies: CJSC MPO Kuzbass and Ventspils Commercial Sea Port. In 2010, coal throughput of the terminal amounted to about 2 million tons. Currently, the coal handled at the BCT’s terminal is exported largely to the UK, Belgium, Spain and Morocco. The terminal’s indoor warehouse allows simultaneous storage of 210,000 tons of coal, (capacity - 6 m t/y). The two companies have invested in the first phase of the terminal EUR 80 million.