Throughput of the port of Temryuk up 17.5% in Q1 07, y-o-y
In January-March 2007, throughput of the port of Temryuk totaled 246.63 thou tons (+17.46%), PortNews IAA learnt from Taman branch of Rosmorport FSUE. Over the reported period export amounted to 229.88 thou tons (+14.33%, year-on-year). Export included 82.098 thou tons of sawn timber, 7.89 thou tons of round timber, 48.528 thou tons of chemical cargo. In January-March the port handled 1.040 thou tons of grain cargo, 41.08 thou tons of metal scrap. Transshipment of fertilizers totaled 9.569 thou tons, non-ferrous metal – 39.643 thou tons, general cargo – 16.772 thou tons. Import totaled 16.75 thou tons (1.9-fold growth, year-on-year). Within the three months of 2007 the port handled 129 vessels (+37.2%, year-on-year).