Throughput of Klaipeda port (including Butinge terminal) up 6% to 3.9 mln t in Jan’13
In January 2013, the port of Klaipeda (including Butinge terminal) increased its throughput by 6%, year-on-year, to 3.902 mln tons, PortNews IAA learnt from the port administration. Throughput of the port without Butinge terminal raised by 0.7% to 2.902 mln tons.
Transshipment of liquid bulk cargo climbed by 9.1% to 1.991 mln tons, dry loose and bulk cargo – by 8.9% to 1.93 mln tons while transshipment of general cargo fell by 4% to 817,560 tons. Handling of Ro-Ro cargo totaled 375,301 tons (+7%). The port’s container throughput amounted to 30,464 TEUs (+10.6%).
In the accounting period the port was visited by 18,786 passengers (-5%). The number of calls to Klaipeda fell by 1.1% to 557.
Klaipeda State Seaport is the northernmost ice–free port on the Eastern coast of the Baltic Sea. It is the most important and biggest Lithuanian transport hub, connecting sea, land and railway routes from East to West. The port’s throughput (excluding Butinge terminal) totaled 43.761 mln t in 2012.