Cargo throughput at the terminals of Kaliningrad Sea Commercial Port (KSCP) in January-August 2013 increased year-on-year 23.6% to 2,880,700 tonnes, the company said in a press release.
In August, cargo shipments soared 61.6% from the same period a year before, to 367,700 tonnes.
Eight-month exports through the port increased by 9.6% to 1,701,300 tonnes. The volume includes general cargo that grew by 13 % to 1,212,600 tonnes. Ferrous metal exports rose 9.6% to 931,400 tonnes, shipments of export coal and coke jumped 1.9 times to 174,700 tonnes. Container exports tumbled by 32.6%, to 51.5 million tonnes.
In the reporting period handling of imports rose 1.5 times to 1,173,800 tonnes. The growth in import segment was driven by bulk cargo volume that increased by 3.1 times to 790,600 tonnes. General cargo imports fell 8.7% to 44,500 tonnes, container imports declined by 28.6% to 301,900 tonnes.
Kaliningrad Sea Commercial Port is the largest enterprise of the port complex of Kaliningrad region. The port is a gateway for intermodal traffic and major exports / imports flows passing through the region. In 2012 cargo throughput at KSCP fell 3.31% year-on-year to 3.31 million tonnes.