Cargo throughput at Rostock Port is gaining momentum
More than 70,000 loading units handled at the terminal for combined transport at Rostock Port for the first time
Cargo throughput at Rostock Port is gaining momentum. The total volume of 23.7 million tons (gross) in 2010 exceeded the reference value of last year by 10 per cent. “After the slump in 2009 things are improving step by step. However we are still far from the 2008 level“, says Ulrich Bauermeister, managing director of the port development company Hafen-Entwicklungsgesellschaft Rostock mbH. Liquid goods throughput rose 15 per cent to 4.6 million tons in the reporting period. Bulk goods reached an annual result of 6 million tons, which means an 11 per cent increase on 2009. General cargo declined by 11 per cent to 365,000 tons, which Bauermeister considers an unsatisfying result, considering the port’s potential. As for rolling load, ferry and ro-ro goods, volume increased from 11.8 million tons in the year 2009 to 12.7 million tons last year (2008: 16 million tons). Rolling cargo accounted for 54 per cent of the total throughput at Rostock Port last year. In total 7,451 ferry, ro-ro, tank, freight and cruising ships called at the port, of which were 5,164 ferry ships. For the first time more than 70,000 units were handled at the terminal for combined transport. The annual result amounted to 70,583 units (up 11 per cent) or 1.4 million tons. Every week 26 combined transport trains are operated between Rostock Port and Verona (13), Duisburg/Hamburg (6), Basel (5) and Wels in Austria (2). Quelle: LogEastics |
