Throughput of Kaliningrad Sea Commercial Port down 30% to 503,900 t in Jan-Feb'14

In January-February 2014, Kaliningrad Sea Commercial Port OJSC handled 503,900 t of cargo (-30%, year-on-year), the stevedoring company says.

In the reported period, export fell by 18.6% to 372,400 t including 343,200 t of dry cargo (-6.1%) and 276,300 t of general cargo (-7.4%). Transshipment of import cargo plunged by 50% to 131,400 t. The company’s container throughput climbed by 10.7% to 11.312 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 2013, the company’s throughput hit 4.068 mln t.