The Klaipeda port handled nearly 473,000 TEUs in 2017, up by 6.7%, from 443,200, in 2016, the port authority told BNS.
TEU traffic in Riga Freeport increased by 15.6% to 446,000 and Tallinn posted a 1.6-percent decline to 199,100 units over the whole calendar of 2017 year-on-year. The Latvian port of Liepaja saw its TEU numbers jump by 65.9% to 3,800 units
Last year, annual TEU traffic via Klaipeda reached a new record of 43 million tons, which is a rise by 7.2%, or 2.87 million tons, from the year before.
