Cargo throughput at the port of Nakhodka in January 2012 increased by 7.4% from a year ago, to 1,313,000 tons, the Nakhodka Port Authority said Tuesday.
Shipments of dry bulk cargo rose 5.1 percent to 686,000 tons. Exports of coal, coke, , including charge and anthracite, fell 5% to 199,300 tons, timber cargo volume declined by 3.7% to 55,500 tons. General cargo traffic totaled 424,700 tons, up 12.3% from 2011’s numbers, including 366,000 tons of ferrous metals (+20.9%) and 37,100 tons of non-ferrous metals (-9.8%).
Container traffic rose by 11.5% to 154 TEUs. Shipments of oil products grew by 10.1% to 627,400 tons.
Russian Port of Nakhodka is located in the northern Bay of Nakhodka. The year-round navigable Port is connected via Trans-Siberian Railroad with the railway network of Russia and Western Europe. In 2011, Port of Nakhodka handled 14.98 million tons (vs 15.32 mln a year earlier).