Volumes Fell at Port of Rostock in First Half of 2012

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.