Throughput of Kaliningrad Sea Commercial Port up 17% to 3.51 mln t

In January-October 2013, Kaliningrad Sea Commercial Port OJSC handled 3.51 mln t of cargo (+17%, year-on-year). According to the company, transshipment of ferrous metal increased by 11.2% to 1.12 mln t, coal and coke – more than 1.8 times to 228,000 t.

The port’s container throughput (loaded and empty containers) climbed by 12.2% to 131,470 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.