Throughput of Kaliningrad Sea Commercial Port (KMTP) in January-September 2011 grew by 16.4 percent year-on-year, to 2.76 million tons, the Port Authority said.
In the reporting period, exports of coal and coke declined by 12.5% to 138,500 tons, while mineral fertilizers volume increased by 14.15% to 50,800 tons. Shipments of ferrous metals increased by 20.5% from a year earlier, to 1.07 million tons, of scrap metal - by 28.2% to 127,200 tons.
Oil product exports rose by 26.4% to 406,200 tons. Container traffic surged as much as 2.9 times to 295,113 TEUs.
Kaliningrad Sea Commercial Port is the stevedore operating at the Port of Kaliningrad. The port is a gateway for intermodal traffic and major exports / imports flows passing through the region. In 2010, cargo throughput of KSCP rose by 1.4 times year-over-year to 3,640,700 tons.