Cargo turnover at Aktau Port down 5.5% in Jan-Aug, to 8,57m tons
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Freight traffic passing through Aktau International Commercial Sea Port (the port of Aktau, Kazakhstan) for January-August 2010 shrank by 5.5% compared with the same period a year earlier, to 8,570,000 tons of dry cargo and petroleum products, the Port Authority statistics said.
The eight-month volume of transshipped crude oil and petroleum products reached 6,407.700 tons. Dry cargo volume amounted to 2,162.400 tons, including 1.274 million tons of metals, 172,300 tons of other goods and 347.500 tons of grain. Ferry traffic totaled 368.600 tons. There were 1383 ship calls at the port in the reporting period.
In August the RSE AICSP handled 886.900 tons of dry cargo and petroleum products, including 628,000 tons of oil cargo, 173.900 tons of steel, 56,800 tons of ferry cargo, 28,200 of tons of other cargoes. The number of calls was 142.
Port of Aktau is located on the east coast of the Caspian Sea and is the only seaport of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The Port is a gate for international trade flows passing via its terminals, a broad range of dry cargoes, crude oil and petroleum products. In 2009 the Aktau Port’s throughput rose by 26.7%, to 13,951,000 tons.
The eight-month volume of transshipped crude oil and petroleum products reached 6,407.700 tons. Dry cargo volume amounted to 2,162.400 tons, including 1.274 million tons of metals, 172,300 tons of other goods and 347.500 tons of grain. Ferry traffic totaled 368.600 tons. There were 1383 ship calls at the port in the reporting period.
In August the RSE AICSP handled 886.900 tons of dry cargo and petroleum products, including 628,000 tons of oil cargo, 173.900 tons of steel, 56,800 tons of ferry cargo, 28,200 of tons of other cargoes. The number of calls was 142.
Port of Aktau is located on the east coast of the Caspian Sea and is the only seaport of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The Port is a gate for international trade flows passing via its terminals, a broad range of dry cargoes, crude oil and petroleum products. In 2009 the Aktau Port’s throughput rose by 26.7%, to 13,951,000 tons.