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Baltic Sea Ports Throughput In Jan-Sept Down 2.5% On Year



MOSCOW -(Dow Jones)- The Baltic Sea ports in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, which mostly handle Russian cargoes, handled 102.143 million metric tons of cargo in the first nine months of the year, a fall of 2.5% compared with January-September 2008, the Latvian statistics agency said Tuesday.

Latvian ports handled 47.121 million tons of cargo in the period, 0.9% less than in the corresponding period last year; Lithuanian ports handled 26.55 million tons, down 11.6% on the year; and Estonian ports handled 28.472 million tons in the period, up 4.5%.

-By Grigori Gerenstein, contributing to Dow Jones Newswires; gerenstein@ hotmail.com


  (END) Dow Jones Newswires
  11-10-090413ET
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