OREANDA-NEWS. October 14, 2010. Freight traffic via Port of Tallinn (Estonia) in January-September 2010 amounted to 27 million 266.1 thousand tons, or 16% up from the same period a year earlier. The port's container throughput increased by 15.3%, to 91,114 TEUs, the Port Authority press release said.

In nine recent months the port has seen 18,963,400 tons of liquid bulk cargo, a 8.9-percent gain over the same period last year, bulk cargo volume soared 53%, to 4,309,000 tons, Ro-Ro cargoes rose 32.3% to 2,598,400 tons (+32,3%). The port stevedores transshipped in the reporting period 18,441,300 tons of transit cargoes.

There was a slight decline in ship calls this year, to 5,513 units.

Port of Tallinn is rated the third largest seaport on the Baltic Sea, next to St. Petersburg and Primorsk. The Port of Tallinn is comprised of five so-called harbor zones: Muuga, Old City Harbor, Paljassaare, Paldiski South and Saaremaa. In 2009 freight traffic via Tallinn seaport totaled 31.597.000 tons.