OREANDA-NEWS. In January 2013, the port of Ust-Luga (Leningrad region) handled 4,297,036.873 tons of cargo which is 1.9 times as high as in the same period of 2012, press center of Ust-Luga Company JSC reports.

 In the accounting period, transshipment of automobiles increased by 11.67% to 16,360 units.

 The number of wagons handled by the port in January 2013 amounted to 41,933 units, which is up 10.4%, year-on-year.

 Ust-Luga port is situated practically at the border of the Russian Federation and the European Union. The deep water area of the port (17.5 m) together with the short seaway canal (3.7 km) make Ust-Luga port the only Russian port on the Baltic Sea capable of admitting dry-cargo vessels with the deadweight of up to 75,000 tonnes and liquid cargo carriers with the deadweight of up to 160,000 tonnes. In 2012, the port’s throughput totaled 46,612,344 mln tons. By 2018 the throughput of the port is expected to reach 180 mln tons of cargo.