Syrian port sees activities soar
Syria, Economics, 1/13/2005

Syria's main port of Lattakia made a wide increase in last year's activities compared with 2003 where productivity jumped by 24.16 %, Director General of the port Wednesday said.

"Commodities volume has reached at 6,043,738 tones in 2004 with one million tone increase from last year. This in turn has led to increase the port activity from SP 1,076,324,658 in 2003 to SP 1,849,163,900, a 71% increase," Director General of the port company Malek Sheikh Yassin said.

Travelers coming and going through the port number climbed from 6776 to 16425 with an increase of 142.4 percent and number of ships amounted to 1375 with and increase of 14 % .

Yassin said the port would play a significant role in serving commodities and equipments coming into Syria from Europe and Iraq noting that after the signing of the partnership accord between Syria and the EU, trade exchange would be activated to contribute in the port efficiency.

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