Port of Riga: 32.76mt handled in 2019 (-10.1% yoy)

The Latvian port noted decreases across the board, in the turnover of dry (-12% year-on-year to 20.83mt) and liquid (-7.1% yoy to 3.83mt) bulk as well as of general cargo (-6.1% yoy to 8.09mt).

Riga's container traffic marked a downtick of 0.5% yoy to altogether 466,889 TEUs.

The ro-ro segment went down, too, by 9.8% yoy to a total of 77,434 trucks & trailers.

On the whole, passenger traffic contracted as well, by 0.2% yoy to 868,653 travellers, incl. 69,207 cruise (-7.5% yoy) and 799,446 ferry (+0.4% yoy) passengers.