BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 5
By Rufiz Hafizoglu – Trend:
The volume of cargo transportation via Turkish Bartin port amounted 502,427 tons from January through April 2020, Turkish Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure told Trend.
In the reporting period, 24,269 tons of cargo were moved via the Bartin port by ships flying the Turkish flag, while ships flying the flags of other countries shipped 478,158 tons of cargo.
No cargo was transited over the mentioned period through this port.
In the first four months of 2020, the volume of cargo shipment through the ports of Turkey exceeded 123.4 million tons.
Meanwhile, the volume of cargo handled by ships flying the Turkish flag surpassed 9.6 million tons.
The volume of cargo movement via the Turkish ports by ships flying their countries’ flags amounted to 4.9 million tons, and by ships flying the flags of other countries amounted to 108.8 million tons.
Over the reporting period, over 24.9 million tons of cargo were transited through the ports of Turkey.
The volume of cargo movement through the Turkish ports amounted to more than 28.8 million tons in April 2020.
In the reporting month, the volume of cargo transshipment through Turkish ports by ships flying their countries' flags amounted to 2.2 million tons, while cargo transshipment by ships flying the flags of other countries amounted to 25.6 million tons.
The ministry said over 6.5 million tons of cargo was shipped by transit through the ports of Turkey in April 2020.
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