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.
The overall transshipment volume increased by 636,000 t to 4.1 million t at the port of Klaipeda in August thanks to a 731,000 t splash to 3.3 million t in cargo turnover at the Klaipeda State Seaport. At the same time, crude oil handling by the Butinge terminal shrank by 94,000 t to 792,000…… Read more »
The Riga Freeport cargo turnover increased by 80,000 t to 1.35 million t in August compared with July.
The Liepaja SEZ cargo turnover did not change much in August compared with July. The stevedoring companies of the port processed a total of 526,000 t of goods, up insignificant 1% or 5,000 t over the month.
NIBULON has shipped the second 63,000 t consignment of Ukrainian wheat to Egypt under the agreement with GASC.
TEUS, a freight forwarding company, has purchased 10 grain hoppers with a loan from Raiffeisen Bank. The fleet was repainted by Novotrain LLC.
The Polish operator Freightliner PL has expanded its fleet with 40 leased grain hoppers with a lifting capacity of 58 tons. The rolling stock will be used on domestic and international routes.
In early September, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy together with grain market participants (the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine, the UGA, the EBA, the Ukrainian National Agrarian Forum, and the Association of Farmers and Private Landowners of Ukraine) agreed on the maximum volume of wheat and meslin
Astarta-Kyiv received 40 new grain hoppers as part of the USAID Economic Resilience Activity (ERA).