Throughput of Kaliningrad Sea Commercial Port down 17.2% to 3.357 mln t in 2014

In 2014, Kaliningrad Sea Commercial Port OJSC handled 3.357 mln t of cargo (-17.2%, year-on-year), the stevedoring company says.

In the reported period, transshipment of ferrous metal fell by 24.9% to 982,100 t, coal and coke – climbed by 9% to 298,200 t, oil products – plunged 4.6 times to 56,900 t, scrap metal – increased by 3.8% to 134,100 t.

The port’s container throughput declined by 6.6% to 145,842 TEUs.

Kaliningrad Sea Commercial Port OJSC 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.