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2012 April 5   08:50

Estonia’s Tallinn Port traffic volume down 8.7 percent in Jan-Mar

Cargo throughput at the port of Tallinn (Estonia) for the January-March period totaled 8,412,600 tons, an 8.7-percent decline from last year’s figure, while container traffic for the same period grew 28.6% to 56,969 TEUs, the Port Authority statistics said.


In January-March this year the port handled 5,848,400 tons of liquid bulk, down 16.7% year-on-year, 944,300 tons dry bulk cargo, a 32.2% surge from Jan-Mar, 2011, 947,800 tons of rolling cargoes (+5,9%).


The number of calls, including passenger ships arrivals was down 0.4% year-over-year, to 1 695 vessels.


Port of Tallinn ranks third among largest seaport, next to St. Petersburg and Primorsk, on the Baltic Sea. The Port comprises five so-called port zones: Muuga, Old City Harbor, Paljassaare, Paldiski South and Saaremaa. In 2011, Port of Tallinn’s cargo volume totaled 36.5 million tons.

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