All three major cargo groups contracted - dry bulk by 33% year-on-year to 10.08mt, general cargo by 11.2% yoy to 5.47mt, and liquid bulk by 24.5% yoy to 2.05mt.

While the port's container traffic went down only slightly, a decrease of 2.4% yoy to altogether 337,189 TEUs, the ro-ro segment shrank by as much as 70% yoy to 18,956 units.

Riga's passenger traffic was also hit exceptionally hard, a 59.7% yoy loss to 276,736 ferry passenger only (there were no cruise calls vs. 67,867 travellers in I-IX 2019).