The Latvian seaport took care of 7.73 million tonnes of general cargo, an advance of 2.4% on the 2022 result, including 5.11mt of containerised freight (+9.8% year-on-year).

Although the handling of grains rose by 23.1% yoy, becoming Riga's leading dry bulk trade, the entire dry bulk category lost 29.5% yoy down to 10.22mt (chiefly because of the 73.2% yoy drop in coal & coke turnover).

Liquid cargo contracted as well - by 42.4% yoy to 846.2kt.

The Port of Riga overall handled 18.79mt (-20.1% yoy).

A total of 81,681 cruise travellers went through Riga's quays, a year-on-year increase of 7.9%.