Estonian ports loaded and unloaded 12.57 million tons of freight in the first four months of the year 2009, just 0.6% less than during the same period a year earlier, informed BNS.
The main reason for the decline was a year-on-year drop of close to 5% in loading where throughput reached 9.8 million tons.
Unloading at the same time surged 17% to 2.76 million tons.
In April 2.54 million tons of goods was loaded, marking an increase of 16% in annual comparison. Unloading totaled 0.8 million tons, up by 13% from the same month last year.