OLN: Cargo turnover at Kaliningrad sea port shrank by a third

Based on materials by Kaliningrad.Ru [1]. Cargo turnover at Kaliningrad sea port fell to 3.003 mn tones in Q1 of 2009 - a 31% drop as compared with same period last year. The volume of oil cargos turnover went up by 35% to 345.3 thousand tones, while transshipment of many other articles slowed down substantially (oil products – by 41.8% to 1.295 mn tones, containers – by 76.5% to 14.371 thousand TEU, metals – by 30.9% to 342.8 thousand tones, coal and coke – by 72.3% to 100.9 thousand tones, mineral fertilisers - by 41.4% to 101.8 thousand tones.

Cargo turnover of Kaliningrad sea port reached 15.3797 mn tones in 2008. Read more in Russian… [2]

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