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2016 December 20   14:17

Throughput of port Ust-Luga up 6% to 85.07 mln t in 11M’16

In January-November 2016, the port of Ust-Luga handled 85,077,100 t of cargo (+6%, year-on-year), says Baltic Sea Ports Administration.

Transshipment of dry bulk cargo climbed by 9% to 25,192,800 t, coal and coke – by 2% to 20,303,600 t. 

Transshipment of liquid bulk cargo climbed by 6% to 56,996,200 including 27,436,400 t of crude oil (+10%) and 27,855,700 t of oil products (+1%). 

Transshipment of general cargo climbed by 4%, year-on-year, to 698,100 t.

Transshipment of cargoes carried by ferries totaled 1,197,300 t (-36%). 

The port’s container throughput fell by 7.1% to 76,533 TEUs. 

In 2015, the port handled 87.86 mln t of cargo, container throughput totaled 89,820 TEUs.

Ust-Luga port is situated practically at the border of the Russian Federation and the European Union. The deep water area of the port (17.5 m) together with the approach channel (3.7 km) make Ust-Luga port the only Russian port on the Baltic Sea capable of admitting dry-cargo vessels with the deadweight of up to 75,000 tonnes and liquid cargo carriers with the deadweight of up to 160,000 tonnes.

Total:

69,540.4

80,451.6

85,077.1

106%

DRY BULK CARGO, including :

20,131.9

23,007.4

25,192.8

109%

Ore

0.0

124.9

245.3

196%

Coal and coke

17,764.4

19,815.8

20,303.6

102%

Mineral fertilizers

422.4

1,518.9

2,759.4

182%

Other

1,945.1

1,547.8

1,884.6

122%

DRY LOOSE CARGO, including:

0.0

3.5

8.6

up 2.5 times

 

0.0

3.5

0.0

down

Other

0.0

0.0

8.6

up

TIMBER

241.5

219.5

274.5

125%

GENERAL CARGO, including:

633.0

672.1

698.1

104%

Ferrous metal

121.9

473.6

544.7

115%

Other

511.1

198.5

153.4

77%

CONTAINERS

816.7

748.9

693.9

93%

teus

99,037

82,314

76,533

,

CARGO CARRIED by FERRIES

1,468.7

1,866.8

1,197.3

64%

Ro-Ro

157.6

41.6

15.7

38%

LIQUID BULK CARGO including:

46,091.1

53.891.8

56,996.2

106%

Crude oil

21,754.9

24,912.1

27,436.4

110%

Oil products

23,303.9

27,687.5

27,855.7

101%

Liquefied gas

1,032.3

1,292.2

1,704.1

132%