Throughput of Kaliningrad Sea Commercial Port down 32.7% to 748,100 t in QI'14

In January-March 2014, Kaliningrad Sea Commercial Port OJSC handled 748,100 t of cargo (-32.7%, year-on-year), the stevedoring company says.

In the reported period, exports fell by 23.1% to 540,100 t including 483,300 t of dry cargo (-15.5%, year-on-year) and 389,300 t of general cargo (-20.3%, year-on-year); imports plunged 1.9 times to 208,000 t. The company’s container throughput increased by 12.7% to 18,211 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 port’s throughput totaled 4.068 mln tonnes.