Throughput of Kaliningrad Sea Commercial Port down 13.6% to 1.09 mln t in Jan-May’15

In January-May 2014, Kaliningrad Sea Commercial Port handled 1,085,900 t of cargo (-13.6%, year-on-year), the stevedoring company says.

In the reported period, transshipment of ferrous metal fell by 4.6% to 462,500 t, coal and coke – by 21.8% to 101,900 t, oil products – by 18.4% to 61,200. Transshipment of scrap metal increased by 24.7% to 59,900 t.

The port’s container throughput dropped  1.7 times to 45,582 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 2014, the port’s throughput totaled 3.357 mln t.