Throughput of Klaipeda port down 17.9% to 6.5 mln t in Q1 09
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In the first quarter of 2009, the port of Klaipeda handled 6.477 million tonnes of cargo (-17.9%, year-on-year), the port informs.
In the reported period transshipment of liquid cargo fell by 12.2% to 2.652 million tonnes, general cargo – by 24.6%, to 1.748 million tonnes.
In the 3-month period the port transshipped 63,400 TEU (-27%, year-on-year). The port handled 1,700 vessels (-4.8%) and serviced 35,900 passengers (-14.6%).
Klaipeda State Seaport is the northernmost ice-free port on the Eastern coast of the Baltic Sea.