Container throughput of Latvian ports up 22%, y-o-y, in Jan-Feb 08, to 40,500 TEU

In January-February, 2008, Latvian ports handled 40,454 containers in TEU equivalent, press release of Latvia’s Ministry of Communications reports according to Gudok.Ru referring to Interfax. The port of Riga accounted for 91.5% of all containers handled by Latvian ports, which corresponds to 37,015 containers (+25.4%, year-on-year). In the reported period, the port of Ventspils handled 2,328 TEU (-2.5%), Liepaja – 1,111 TEU (-7.3%). In 2007, the ports of Latvia handled 236,351 TEU (+8.8%, year-on-year). There are three large and seven small ports in Latvia.