Throughput of Liepaja port (Latvia) up 29.6% to 593,500 t in Jan’13
In January 2013, the port of Liepaja handled 593,500 tons of cargo, up 29.6%, year-on-year. As PortNews IAA learnt from the Port’s Administration, transshipment of grain cargo increased 1.59 times to 243,900 tons, timber – down 24.7% to 50,000 tons, ferrous metal – up 1.89 times to 76,800 tons, non-ferrous metals – up 5-fold to 48,200 tons, scrap metal – down almost 60% to 18,400 tons, coal – up 2.36 times to 20,300 tons, construction materials – down 38% to 17,900 tons, wood pellets – down 14.8% to 13,800 tons.
In the accounting period, the port’s container throughput decreased by 10.2% to 291 TEUs, transshipment of Ro-Ro cargo increased by 26.7% to 2,324 units. The number of calls stayed at the level of the past year - 137 vessels.
The port of Liepaja is the third busiest port of Latvia. Half of its turnover is formed by oil products and dry loose cargo from CIS countries, mainly Belorus. In 2012, the port of Liepaja handled 7.43 mln tons of cargo.