As estimated, the port may lose 2 million tons of freight per year due to these limitations, the Verslo Žinios business daily reports.
Rimantas Juška, CEO of Klaipėdos Smeltė, one of the largest Lithuania’s stevedoring companies controlled by international terminal operator Terminal Investment, told the daily that radical restrictions had been proposed to three companies.
“Radical restrictions in night rail traffic have been proposed. With no freight delivered to such companies as Birių Krovinių Terminalas (Bulk Cargo Terminal), Klaipėdos Smeltė, and Bega, one third of handling volume would be around 2 million tons,” he said.
According to Juška, people living in apartment blocks along the rail section concerned had not accepted the noise-reducing measures that had been proposed.
If the restrictions were put in place, wagon traffic would be reduced by one-third.
Some 134,000 wagons crossed the rail section between Bega and Klaipėdos Smeltė last year. Their number has reached 118,000 so far this year.
