According to the port authority, Helsinki became last year the no. 1 pax port in Europe when it comes to the number of ferry and cruise travellers served.
Apart from its new freight handling record, the German seaport also noted a new all-time high in passenger traffic - up by 1.6% year-on-year to a total of 2,117,389 travellers.
Last year, international shipments going across the Latvian rail network totalled 42.14mt (-9.1% year-on-year), while domestic ones 1.65mt (+11.5% yoy).
Last year, the Azov-Black Sea (+10.4% year-on-year to 269.5mt) became the country's biggest trading basin, surpassing the Baltic's long-lasting dominance (+4.6% yoy to 247.5mt).
The Latvian port also hit a new ro-ro cargo units handling all-time high last year, when 81,755 trucks and trailers (+2.3% year-on-year) went through Ventspils' quays.