Port of Liepaja cargo volumes up 52.3% to 5.32 mln tons
Cargo throughput at the Latvian port of Liepaja in January-September 2012 leaped by 52.3% from a year earlier to 5.32 million tons, the Port Authority said.
Shipments of grain jumped by 2.3 times year-on-year to 1.97 million tons. Coal transshipment surged by nearly twofold, to 194,000 tons. Handling of construction materials fell 1.3% to 404,000 tons, oil products volume plummeted by 60% to 146,400 tons, while crude oil shipments increased by 45% to 104,300 tons. Timber cargo volume was up 16% to 620,900 tons.
Handling of Ro-Ro cargoes rose by 1.65 times to 21,906 units. Container throughput grew 32.5% to 3,198 TEUs. The number of calls increased by 25.9% to 1,354 vessels.
Port of Liepaja was founded in the 90s of last century at the former Soviet Union’s naval base. Liepaja ranks third port of Latvia by handled cargo volume. Half of the port’s cargo throughput is fueled by crude oil and bulk cargoes imported from the CIS countries, largely from Belorussia. In 2011, Liepaja handled 4.85 million tons of cargo.
