The port of Klaipeda handled approximately 4.2 million t of various cargoes in September 2024, up 136,000 t from August and the highest since February 2022. The overall increase is mainly due to a 240,000 t hike in cargo turnover in the Klaipeda State Seaport to 3.54 million t.
In March of this year, Getreide AG, a German rapeseed processor, registered a branch in Ukraine – Getreide AG Ukraine, which will be engaged in trading activities.
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On October 1, a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, Alexandroupolis LNG, with an annual throughput capacity of 5.5 billion cubic meters, began commercial operation in the Greek port of Alexandroupolis.
The small-tonnage markets of the Black and Mediterranean Seas have seen a slight increase in the overall cargo flow, primarily thanks to a further gradual upturn in grain shipments from Ukrainian ports, as well as fertilizers from North African, Georgian and Russian ports.
Both sea and river traffic has been suspended in Romania due to adverse weather conditions such as strong winds. This was reported by the country’s General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations.
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The Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company has successfully completed sea trials of the modernized Kapitan Antipov vessel. It is currently being prepared to return from Linz (Austria) to Izmail. It should be noted that this is the first major modernization of the vessel in the history of the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority: for more than…… Read more »
The cargo turnover shrank by 7% at the Ventspils Freeport in August compared with July. In particular, port operators handled 582,000 t of various types of goods, down 44,000 t against the previous month.
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