JOC Staff | Aug 16, 2012 3:55PM EDT
Volumes were down in the first half of 2012 at the German seaport of Rostock.
The seaport proper handled 10.4 million metric tons of goods, 6 percent below the level seen during the same period in 2011; another 800,000 metric tons were handled by other facilities, such as the chemical port of Yara.
Wheeled cargo (ferry and roll-on, roll-off traffic) stood at 6.3 million metric tons, down 5 percent, and the seaport handled 4.1 million metric tons of bulk and general cargo, down 9 percent compared with the first half of 2011. The port attributed the declines to the “sluggish economic trend” in the area Rostock serves, as well as a loss of freight owing to work on a rail line.
