Freight
handling by Estonian
ports up 16.4% on year in
September 2018
BC, Tallinn, 19.10.2018.
Estonian ports handled 3 mln tons of cargoes in September
2018, 16.4% more than during the same period last year, informs LETA/BNS.
Loading of goods grew 25.2% year on year to 2 mln tons and
unloading rose 1.8% to 1 mln tons in September, it appears from data provided
by Statistics Estonia.
Estonian ports handled 26.8 mln tons of cargoes in the
first nine months of 2018, 3.6% more than during the same period last year. At
that, the loading of goods grew 5.9% year on year to 18.2 mln tons and
unloading declined 0.9% to 8.6 mln tons.
In 2017, Estonian ports handled 34.8 mln tons of cargo,
which is 3%, or 1.2 mln tons more than the year before. A total of 23.5 mln
tons of goods were loaded and 11.3 mln tons of goods were unloaded in Estonian
ports in 2017, which means that 4% more goods were loaded and 2% more goods
were unloaded than in 2016. In 2017, 114 more cargo ships called at Estonian
ports than in 2016. The average gross tonnage of cargo vessels was roughly
11,100 tons.
Klaipeda
port operators set new
container handling records
BC, Vilnius, 18.10.2018.
Klaipedos Konteineriu Terminalas (Klaipeda Container
Terminal, or KKT) and Klaipedos Smelte are setting new container handling
records this year, according to the business daily Verslo Zinios reported on
Thursday writes LETA/BNS.
KKT handled 257,600 TEUs between January and September, a
rise of 19 % on the same time last year.
Klaipedos Smelte saw TEU handling volumes for the nine
months more than double to 279,400 units, from 129,200 a year ago.
KKT CEO Vaidotas Sileika said the company was on its way to
achieve a new annual record of over 350,000 TEUs in 2018, with the total cargo
throughput of its terminals expected to reach 4.5 mln tons.
KKT is investing over 8 mln euros in upgrading its cargo
handling machinery in the next two years.
Two new container lifters have been delivered to KKT
recently and two modern cranes are to arrive by the end of the year, with
another four cranes to be manufactured for the company next year.
Latvian
ports raise cargo turnover
2.2% in January-September
BC, Riga, 12.10.2018.
In the first nine months of this year, all Latvian ports
together handled 48.72 mln tons of cargo, up 2.2% from the same period in 2017,
according to the information released by the Transport Ministry.
Bulk cargos, which dominated in the Latvian ports in
January-September this year, rose 5% y-o-y to 26.962 mln tons. Coal cargos grew
4.3% to 14.883 mln tons, chemical bulk cargos were down 5.3% to 2.016 mln tons
and woodchip cargos rose 5.9% to 1.127 mln tons.
Reloading of liquid cargos in the Latvian ports was down
14.8% to 11.45 mln tons in January-September 2018. Oil products made up the largest
part of the liquid cargos reloaded in the first nine months of this year,
falling 15.8% y-o-y to 10.806 mln tons.
Handling of general cargos increased 19.8% y-o-y to 10.308
mln tons in January-September 2018. Container cargos rose 7% to 3.639 mln tons
and timber was up 45.5 % to 3.6 mln tons. Roll on/roll off cargos grew 12.6% to
2.645 mln tons.
Riga led other Latvian port by cargo turnover in
January-September this year, having reloaded 26.708 mln tons of cargo, which
was 4.8 % more than in the first nine months of 2017. The port of Ventspils
followed with 15.085 mln tons of cargo reloaded in January-September 2018, down
7% y-o-y, and the port of Liepaja was third with 5.521 mln tons of cargo, up
16.2 % against the first nine months of 2017.
Skulte led Latvia's small ports by cargo turnover in
January-September 2018, as it reloaded 742,200 tons, up 9.3% y-o-y. Mersrags
followed with 329,300 tons, up 3%, and Salacgriva was third with 258,600 tons
at a 34.2% rise from the first nine months of 2017.
The small Latvian ports together handled 1.409 mln tons of
cargos in January-September this year, up 14.6% from the same period last year.
In 2017, the Latvian ports reloaded 61.877 mln tons of
cargo, down 2% from 2016.
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