Throughput of Kaliningrad Sea Commercial Port up 36.5% to 3.19 mln t Jan-Sep’13

In January-September 2013, Kaliningrad Sea Commercial Port OJSC handled 3.19 mln t of cargo (+36.5%, year-on-year), the company states. In the reported period, transshipment of ferrous metal surged by 20.2% 1.02 mln t, coal and coke boosted over 2-fold to 202,000 tonnes, transshipment of oil product was almost flat at 263,600 tonnes.

The port’s container throughput lost 15.7% to make 117,125 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 tonnes.