Apart from setting a new record in the amount of coal exports, the Port of Ust-Luga-based terminal also handled last year its largest ship ever - the 180k dwt 282 metres long Navios Pollux.
Out of the total figure, container import traffic totalled 617,341 TEU in the reported period (+8.2% year-on-year), while exports added the remaining 608,237 TEU (+6.7% yoy).
With 4.8 mln tn (+/-0% year-on-year), general cargo accounted for the bulk of freight handlings done by the Russian stevedore Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg.
In total, the Klaipeda Container Terminal took care of 2.9 mln tn of various general cargo goods over 2017's first three quarters, more by 12% year-on-year.
The company's three sea container terminals operating in the Port of Hamburg made a total of 5.2 mln TEU during this year's first three quarters, an uptick by 11.3% year-on-year.