Global Ports Investments PLC has announced its operational results for Q1 2023.
The Group’s consolidated marine container throughput in Q1 2023 declined by 48.8% compared to Q1 2022, given the high base effect of the first two months of 2022, while demonstrating a 4% increase compared to Q4 2022.
VSC container throughput in Q1 2023 increased by 17.3% vs Q1 2022 and 2.0% vs Q4 2022 which exceeded market growth in Far East in both periods. The terminal handled 171 thousand TEU.
FCT lost 95.7 of its container traffic handling 6 thousand TEU, PLP was down 88.7% year-on-year to 9 thousand TEU, and ULCT in Ust-Luga down 95.3% to 0.3 thousand TEU. The Yanino dry port handled 8.5 thousand TEU in Q1 2023 declining 61.8% year-on-year.
Global Ports’ consolidated bulk cargo throughput in Q1 2023 increased by 133.4% vs Q1 2022 to 1,269 thousand tons as result of Group’s efforts to attract bulk cargo in order to compensate for the container market decline on the Baltics.
Ro-ro throughput dropped 84.3% to 0.7 thousand units.
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