Latvia: Freeport of Riga's cargo turnover down 10.5% in 1-9/2016

11.10.2016

Latvia: Freeport of Riga's cargo turnover down 10.5% in 1-9/2016
Baltic News Service, 11 Oct 2016, online:-
The cargo turnover of Latvia's Freeport of Riga totalled 26.873mn tons in the first nine months of 2016, which was down 10.5% from 30.026mn tons in the same period of 2015. Shipments of bulk cargo totalled 15.661mn tons (down 8.4% over a year), followed by liquid cargoes with 6.534mn tons (down 20.5%) and general cargoes with 4.678mn tons (down 0.5%). Coal accounted for 33.9%, oil products for 24.2%, container cargoes for 10.2%, chemical cargoes for 8%, and wood materials for 7.4% of the port's total cargo turnover.
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