Klaipeda Seaport (Lithuania) plans dredging up to 17 m and becoming a hub

Klaipeda Seaport (Lithuania) plans dredging up to 17 m by 2018 and becoming a hub, IAA PortNews cites Arvidas Vaitkue, Director General of Klaipeda Seaport, as saying yesterday at the International Transport and Logistics Conference TransRussia 2014.

According to him, the port plans becoming a container hub.

In 2014 container terminal of MSC and Maersk is to start operation. It will handle container carriers with the capacity of up to 6,500 TEUs.

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.