OREANDA-NEWS.  March 15, 2011. Freight volume handled by Estonian Port of Tallinn in January-February 2011 amounted to 5,947,800 tons, a 6-percent gain from the last year’s figures. Container traffic during the reporting period surged by 30% to 27,791 TEUs, the Port Authority statistical information said.

In January-February the port’s stevedores handled 4,459,600 tons of liquid bulk (+ 16.5% compared to January last year), 5,784,100 tons of bulk cargo (-45%), 556,300 tons of Ro-Ro cargo (+24%).

The number of calls (including passenger ships arrivals) in January-February rose by 8% compared to last year, to 1,102 vessels.

Port of Tallinn (AS Tallinna Sadam) ranks third among largest seaport, next to St. Petersburg and Primorsk, on the Baltic Sea. The Port comprises five so-called port zones: Muuga, Old City Harbor, Paljassaare, Paldiski South and Saaremaa. In 2010, Tallinn port’s cargo throughput totaled 36,65 million tons.