Throughput of Klaipeda port and Butingės terminal (Lithuania) down 13.5% to 10.21 mln t in QI'14

In January-March 2014, Klaipeda port and Butingės terminal (Lithuania) handled 10.21 mln t of cargo (-13.5%, year-on-year). According to the port’s authority, transshipment of crude oil via Butingės terminal fell by 37% to 1.51 mln t.

Throughput of Klaipeda port without Butingės terminal fell by 7.5% to 8.7 mln t including 1.28 mln t of oil products (-50.4%, year-on-year), 355,000 t of liquid fertilizers (-23.6%), 12,860 t of molasses (-67.8%) and 84,620 t of other liquid bulk cargo (+9.9%).

Transshipment of agriculture goods totaled 763,430 t (-24%), bulk natural and chemical fertilizers - 2.2 mln t (+16.3%), raw sugar - 147,730 t (+8.2%), construction materials - 495,180 t (+9.6%), ore - 417,230 t (up 4.6 times), scrap metal - 88,150 t (+50.2%), peat - 35,560 t (-31.4%).

Transshipment of timber totaled 98,000 t (-22.5%), iron and steel goods - 43,420 t (-28.3%), solid natural and chemical fertilizers 153,840 (+45.2%), refrigerated cargo - 57,800 t (-18.1%).

The port’s container throughput climbed by 16% to 110,610 TEUs, transshipment of Ro-Ro cargoes declined by 4.1% to 57,410 t. The number of calls fell by 4.3% to 1,543 calls.

Klaipeda State Seaport is the northernmost ice–free port on the Eastern coast of the Baltic Sea. It is the most important and biggest Lithuanian transport hub, connecting sea, land and railway routes from East to West. The port’s throughput (including Butinge terminal) made 33.42 mln t in 2013.