Klaipeda remained the number one seaport in the Baltic countries in terms of container handling in the first half of this year, with TEU traffic soaring by 49.3 percent, year-on-year, to 210,600 units, reported the Baltic Business Daily.
Year-on-year, TEU traffic in Riga rose by 22.8 percent to 141,700, and Tallinn posted a 22.5 percent increase, to 92,200 units, it said.
TEU traffic in Liepaja doubled in the reporting period, to 1,470 units, while Ventspils, another Latvian port, handled no TEUs in January-June.
The Russian port of St Petersburg posted a 35.7 percent year-on-year rise to 1.19 million units in TEU traffic in the first half of this year.
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