Of all cargos handled by the Baltic ports in the first nine months of this year, 42.4% were reloaded in Latvia, 34.5% in Lithuania and 23.1% in Estonia.
Compared to the first nine months of 2016, all three Baltic states showed growth of cargo turnover at their ports in January-September 2017.
The cargo turnover of the Latvian ports rose 3.9% or 1.788 million tons year-on-year to 47.712 million tons in January-September this year.
Lithuanian ports raised cargo turnover by 6.7% or 2.455 million tons to 38.854 million tons. In Estonia, the ports' annual cargo turnover was up 0.6% or 152,500 tons to 25.933 million tons in January-August 2017.
The Lithuanian port of Klaipeda led other Baltic ports by cargo turnover in January-September this year, as it reloaded 31.4 million tons, up five% from the first nine months of 2016.
Latvia's Riga port was in the second place with 25.491 million tons of cargo reloaded in January-September 2017, down 5.1% year-on-year, and another Latvian port, Ventspils, was third with 16.222 million tons, which was a rise by 15.5% from the first nine months of 2016.
In 2016, all Baltic ports together received and shipped 145.943 million tons of cargo, down 2.8% or 4.196 million tons from 2015. Of the total cargo turnover in Baltic ports last year, 43.2% were handled in Latvia, 33.8% in Lithuania and 23% in Estonia.
