Klasco stevedoring company of Klaipeda handled 5.26 million tons of cargo over 8 months 2006
Klasco stevedoring company of Klaipeda handled 5.26 million tons of cargo over 8 months 2006. Its income amounted to $28.37 million. (correspondingly -1.8% and +0.3% against year-on-year result excluding the results of container terminal sold in 2005, RZhD-Partner reports. This year growth of the company’s income is explained by increased growth of demand for additional services – warehousing and internal loading, Klasco reported. According to Valeninas Greichunas, Klsco’s Director General, the company decreased transit of general cargo – frozen food and ferrous alloys, since Kazakhstan started to sell more of these products to China. According to forecasts, Klasco will manage to preserve the last-year level of loading serving over 8.3 million tons of cargo.