Railway deliveries of mineral fertilizers dropped by 14% to 244,000 t in February compared with January 2025. In particular, domestic supplies shrank by 20% month-on-month to 164,000 t, while transportation of imported mineral fertilizers rose by 9% to 80,000 t.
Dynamics of average mazut prices, $/tonne
Gondola car rental rate index, €/day*
The February 2025 cargo turnover of the Riga Freeport slumped to the lowest since July 2024. Port operators processed a total of 1.3 million t of cargo of various types, which is 212,000 t below January 2025.
The turnover of cargoes totaled 547,000 t at the Liepaja SEZ in February 2024, which was a 27,000 t or 5% increase compared to January and approximately in line with December 2024.
Gondola car price index, €/unit*
The port of Klaipeda reported a 510,000 t plunge in the overall transshipment volumes to 3.7 million t in February 2025 compared with January. In particular, the turnover of the Klaipeda State Seaport dropped by 272,000 t to 3 million t, while that of the Butinge terminal by 238,000 t to 677,000 t.
LTG Cargo Ukraine, a subsidiary of LTG Cargo (Lietuvos geležinkeliai), has implemented a project to transport grain hoppers from Ukraine to Lithuania. The rolling stock manufactured by Kryukiv Railway Car Building Works was purchased by LTG Cargo to increase grain transportation volumes.
Having improved slightly, the small-tonnage market sentiment has deteriorated again this week, partly due to the start of Ramadan and minimized activity in the Mediterranean Sea (primarily this applies to shipments of fertilizers and minerals from North African ports).
In January 2025, a total of 17.6 million t of cargo were transported by railway in Poland, which is a 100,000 t or 0.8% decline from January 2024 and a 500,000 t or 2.7% reduction from December 2024.