"This negative development is mainly due to the declining demand for transport in Europe," the Swiss combined rail transport company said in a press release.
As such, the Swedish seaport noted a new all-time high for containers going over its quays (16k more boxes than the port's previous record result from 2012).
The Finnish seaports took care of 14.12 million tonnes in international traffic last year (-13.2% year-on-year), plus 196.4kt in cabotage (-73.2% yoy).
The Latvian seaport took care of 7.73 million tonnes of general cargo, an advance of 2.4% on the 2022 result, including 5.11mt of containerised freight (+9.8% year-on-year).
General cargo, the Polish seaports' leading trade, totalled 15.88mt (-10.4% year-on-year), of which freight brought on board ferries amounted to 12.94mt (-10.5% yoy).
The Finnish seaport took care of nearly 4.51mt in international traffic (+3.2% year-on-year), of which exports totalled 3.05mt (+0.7% yoy) and imports - 1.46mt (+8.8% yoy).
The Tallinn-Helsinki crossing welcomed 7.0m travellers last year (+13.7% year-on-year), followed by 537k between Tallinn and Stockholm (+18.3% yoy), and 170k on the Muuga-Vuosaari service (+7.8% yoy).