25% of container import in Russia is overloaded by Baltic ports
Publishedо 30 July, 2015
The research of the news agency "PortNews" made following the results of the firsthalf of 2015, revealed that on the background of a sharp decline in container traffic through Russian terminals, container freight TEUs, shipped through the Baltic ports, comprise almost 25% of total container import.
Thus, in the I half year through the port of Hamina-Kotka in Finland there was overfraught about 111 000 imported TEUs, almost a third of which (33 000 units) were sent to Russia.
Specialist define the reason for transloading in the ports of the Baltic because in Russian terminals there is the imperfection of the system of customs services, short terms and the high cost of storage of goods.
Source - information site PortNews
