Lithuania's Klaipeda port continues leading Baltic states by container throughput
2016-10-18, 11:42
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Economy
BFL / Tomas Luksys
The Lithuanian seaport of Klaipeda continues leading the ports of other Baltic countries in terms of container loading volumes in the first nine months of 2016. In January-September period, the port handled nearly 323,300 TEU, up by 10.7%, from 292,000 TEU, from the same period last year, the port's authority said. At the Riga port in Latvia, TEU traffic grew by 4.3% to 276,900, while Estonia's Tallinn saw a decline by 6.6% to 148,800 and Latvia's Liepaja reported a drop by 37.4% to 1,352 over the period. In 2015, the Klaipeda port handled a total of 392,700 TEU, down by 12.8%, from 450,400 TEU, in the year before.
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