THE port of Kaliningrad along the Baltic coast handled between January and February 1,711,500 tonnes of cargo, a year-on-year decrease of 14 per cent, according to the Baltic Sea Ports Administration. Transshipment of dry bulk cargo plummeted by 42 per cent to 180,900 tonnes, including 89,000 tonnes of coal (down 55 per cent) and 85,000 tonnes of other cargoes (down 22 per cent). Transshipment of dry bulk cargo declined by 12 per cent to 561,700, and general cargo by one per cent to 214,400 tonnes. The port also handled 462,000 tonnes of liquid bulk cargo (up one per cent), including 273,600 tonnes of oil products (up 47 per cent), 103,100 tonnes of crude oil (down 15 per cent), 80,000 tonnes of food cargo (down 45 per cent) and 5,300 tonnes of chemicals (down 40 per cent). The port's container throughput decreased by 13 per cent, year on year, to 36,393 TEU.