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Cargo handling statistics at Lithuanian port set new record

Xinhua, August 11, 2015 Adjust font size:

Lithuania's port of Klaipeda saw its cargo handling turnover rising by almost a fifth in July, showed the data released on Monday.

In July, the total cargo handling turnover reached 3.36 million tonnes, marking an increase of 19.4 percent compared to the same month last year. During the January-July period the turnover reached 22.22 million tonnes, 8 percent more than in the same period last year.

The port of Klaipeda also welcomed its largest ship arrival ever. The 336.68-meter-long and 45.60-meter-wide MSC Asya entered the port on Sunday, just two months after the record arrival of 324.8-meter-long container ship MSC Charleston.

"The arrival of MSC Asya, the record size ship, to the port reaffirms that a joint consolidation of our efforts and the implementation of container cargo distribution center is a massive achievement for Klaipeda port," Arvydas Vaitkus, director general of the Klaipeda Sea Port Authority, said in the press release.

"We are starting to count ships longer than 300 meters," he added, highlighting that a port of a small Baltic country is now capable of serving oceanic ships which used to be handled in larger Western European seaports.

According to the port, the number of ships longer than 200 meters arriving at the port has almost doubled since 2009. Enditem