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2008 January 22   06:06

Throughput of Kaliningrad port up 2.6% in 2007 to 15.6 million tonnes

In 2007, throughput of the port of Kaliningrad grew by 2.6%, year-on-year, to 15.624.8 million tonnes of cargo, PortNews IAA learnt from Kaliningrad branch of RosMorPort FSUE. In the reported period transshipment of export cargo totaled 13.418.7 million tonnes (-01.4%, year-on-year) including 9.034.1 million tonnes of oil products (-6.3%), 626,100 tonnes of chemical cargo (+10.2%), 1.765.2 million tonnes of ferrous metal (+5.5%), 135,100 tonnes of scrap metal (-21%), 239,500 tonnes of ferrous alloys (-18.9%), 1.065.5 million tonnes of coal and coke (+48.3%), 96,800 tonnes of grain (+9.3%), 77,900 tonnes of timber (+22.9%, year-on-year). In 2007, container throughput grew by 67.8% to 124,010 TEU (57,600 tonnes). Transshipment of export ro-ro cargo fell 8.3-fold to 4,000 tonnes.

Transshipment of import cargo amounted to 2.069.6 million tonnes (+33.5%) including 128,136 TEU of containerized cargo (+54.4%, year-on-year), 20,900 tonnes of ro-ro cargo (-26.1%), 547,800 tonnes of grain cargo (+75.2%), 57,300 tonnes of fish products (-56.4%), 53,200 tonnes of refrigerated cargo (-47.2%). No chemical cargo or oil products were imported via the port in 2007. Transshipment of other cargo amounted to 140,700 tonnes (+31%).

In January-December the port handled 136,500 tonnes of coastal trade cargo (+93.6%, year-on-year).

Kaliningrad is the western-most port of Russia, located at the South-Eastern part of the Baltic Sea at the mouth of Pregolia river. The port is connected with the sea by Kaliningrad Marine Canal (23 miles). The Canal’s minimum depth is 9.0 meters. Declared draft of vessels is up to 8.0 meters. There are berths of three ports in Kaliningrad: sea trade port, fishing port and river port. Water areas of sea trade port and fishing port border each other and include three manmade harbors – Volnaya, Industrialnaya and Lesnaya - and part of Pregolia river. The berths of sea trade port are located at both sides of Volnaya harbor, at the North-Eastern shore of Industrialnaya harbor and on the left shore of Pregolia river to the East of Volnaya harbor. The berths of fishing port are located at Lesnaya harbor, at the South-West shore of Industrialnaya harbor and on the left shore of Pregolia river to the South of Lesnaya harbor.

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