Throughput of Kaliningrad Sea Commercial Port up 40.5% to 714,100 tons in Jan-Feb '13

In January-February, 2013, Kaliningrad Sea Commercial Port OJSC handled 714,100 tons of cargo (up 40.5%, year-on-year), the company informs.

In the accounting period, export surged by 25.7% to 453,700 tons including 361,200 tons of dry cargo (+29.3%), 296,600 tons of general cargo (+29.9%), 92,500 tons of liquid bulk cargo (+13.3%). Import increased by 1.8 times to 260,400 tons. The company’s container throughput fell by 24.2% to 9.756 TEUs.

Kaliningrad Sea Commercial Port JSC is the largest enterprise of the regional port complex. Practically all means of transport and the basic part of the export-import freight traffic passing through the region, close in the port. In 2012, the port’s throughput fell by 3.31%, year-on-year, to 3.31 mln tons.