Nei primi nove mesi del il porto di Portland ha movimentato 8.403.083 tonnellate di merci (-8,5%)

Nei primi nove mesi di quest'anno il porto di Portland (Oregon) ha movimentato 8.403.083 tonnellate di merci, con una flessione dell'8,5% rispetto a 9.188.698 tonnellate movimentate nel corrispondente periodo del 2004.

Il traffico delle merci sfuse è ammontato a 744.384 tonnellate (+20,6%). La movimentazione di cereali si è attestata a 2.661.640 tonnellate (-5,6%), quella di minerali a 3.415.606 (+10,0%). Il traffico dei container è stato pari a 116.955 teu, in calo del 48,0% rispetto ai primi nove mesi dello scorso anno.

La Port of Portland e la Portland Bulk Terminals (gruppo Canpotex) hanno siglato un accordo per l'espansione del Terminal 5 dedicato alla movimentazione della potassa con un investimento di 16 milioni di dollari. Secondo le previsioni, le esportazioni di potassa saliranno da 2,5 milioni a 3,5 milioni di tonnellate all'anno.

Port of Portland
Monthly statistics
(Source: Port of Portland)

NUMBER OF CALLS BY OCEANGOING VESSELS
UNIT OF MEASURE: # OF VESSEL CALLS

	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
JANUARY	72	67	61	65	44
FEBRUARY	71	62	63	74	56
MARCH	71	78	73	67	59
APRIL	76	67	73	67	55
MAY	70	58	66	64	60
JUNE	65	64	67	64	59
JULY	72	65	66	54	53
AUGUST	67	67	65	63	60
SEPTEMBER	76	60	76	60	50
OCTOBER	77	67	76	68
NOVEMBER	72	70	68	65
DECEMBER	75	74	78	62
CALENDAR YEAR TOTAL	864	799	832	773	496

	01-02	02-03	03-04	04-05
FISCAL YEAR TOTAL	835	806	830	705

TOTAL TONNAGE
UNIT OF MEASURE: SHORT TONS

	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
JANUARY	892,569	909,574	714,243	952,445	706,798
FEBRUARY	923,555	775,774	1,122,321	1,185,569	970,847
MARCH	995,394	907,456	1,082,636	996,857	1,000,208
APRIL	860,066	908,844	970,732	1,121,620	1,026,335
MAY	956,732	690,534	996,828	1,002,317	878,952
JUNE	812,247	815,602	898,278	963,716	948,095
JULY	889,372	785,467	843,522	809,720	815,049
AUGUST	930,419	879,410	978,888	1,069,165	1,030,690
SEPTEMBER	1,014,433	838,283	1,168,805	1,087,289	1,026,109
OCTOBER	1,004,650	963,285	1,117,923	1,166,388
NOVEMBER	885,309	1,089,688	851,722	1,114,084
DECEMBER	887,595	1,114,602	1,212,019	1,112,199
CALENDAR YEAR TOTAL	11,052,341	10,678,519	11,957,917	12,581,369	8,403,083

	01-02	02-03	03-04	04-05
FISCAL YEAR TOTAL	10,619,562	11,455,773	12,395,403	11,890,080

BREAKBULK TOTAL TONNAGE
UNIT OF MEASURE: SHORT TONS

	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
JANUARY	48,111	32,183	28,392	56,814	55,176
FEBRUARY	22,600	42,226	57,418	106,610	111,868
MARCH	56,119	80,855	72,270	58,108	68,815
APRIL	65,210	92,449	22,743	62,858	115,393
MAY	70,956	66,849	104,421	58,688	15,997
JUNE	87,091	74,966	44,392	46,861	99,857
JULY	76,238	81,900	92,832	116,197	72,409
AUGUST	104,511	82,504	12,379	50,852	86,898
SEPTEMBER	87,413	30,312	44,300	60,033	117,971
OCTOBER	38,140	59,058	46,499	46,017
NOVEMBER	46,920	71,986	11,731	104,606
DECEMBER	65,352	57,678	166,810	124,471
CALENDAR YEAR TOTAL	768,661	772,966	704,187	892,115	744,384

	01-02	02-03	03-04	04-05
FISCAL YEAR TOTAL	808,102	713,074	764,490	969,282

NUMBER OF CONTAINERS (TEUs) TOTAL, LOAD + DISCHARGE
UNIT OF MEASURE: TWENTY-FOOT EQUIVALENT UNITS

	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
JANUARY	24,470	15,642	23,851	22,354	12,777
FEBRUARY	21,064	17,305	23,190	22,247	12,200
MARCH	23,081	22,863	22,827	28,712	11,124
APRIL	22,436	19,677	27,176	25,281	12,853
MAY	25,512	20,489	37,563	23,255	12,818
JUNE	21,081	19,756	29,568	28,999	10,608
JULY	23,115	21,681	34,542	22,849	12,479
AUGUST	21,738	30,386	27,770	25,382	18,272
SEPTEMBER	22,545	24,216	29,208	25,992	13,824
OCTOBER	25,731	24,420	29,119	17,616
NOVEMBER	22,082	17,875	26,701	17,104
DECEMBER	25,636	21,435	28,056	14,818
CALENDAR YEAR TOTAL	278,491	255,745	339,571	274,609	116,955

	01-02	02-03	03-04	04-05
FISCAL YEAR TOTAL	256,579	304,188	326,244	196,141

NUMBER OF CONTAINERS (TEU) LOAD
UNIT OF MEASURE: TWENTY-FOOT EQUIVALENT UNITS

	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
JANUARY	18,062	12,033	20,127	16,578	7,297
FEBRUARY	16,306	13,751	19,131	16,585	7,106
MARCH	17,203	17,755	17,654	21,960	7,444
APRIL	18,162	15,243	20,729	19,071	8,180
MAY	20,799	16,017	27,422	18,017	8,051
JUNE	16,973	14,825	23,937	21,721	6,660
JULY	17,333	16,532	27,208	17,035	6,056
AUGUST	15,856	24,706	20,812	18,607	10,934
SEPTEMBER	16,966	18,987	23,075	18,690	7,651
OCTOBER	19,856	19,863	22,565	12,810
NOVEMBER	16,826	13,496	20,658	11,939
DECEMBER	20,401	17,090	22,438	10,372
CALENDAR YEAR TOTAL	214,743	200,298	265,756	203,385	69,379

	01-02	02-03	03-04	04-05
FISCAL YEAR TOTAL	196,862	239,674	250,688	134,191

NUMBER OF CONTAINERS (TEU) DISCHARGE
UNIT OF MEASURE: TWENTY-FOOT EQUIVALENT UNITS

	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
JANUARY	6,408	3,609	3,724	5,776	5,480
FEBRUARY	4,758	3,554	4,059	5,662	5,094
MARCH	5,878	5,108	5,173	6,752	3,680
APRIL	4,274	4,434	6,447	6,210	4,673
MAY	4,713	4,472	10,141	5,238	4,767
JUNE	4,108	4,931	5,631	7,278	3,948
JULY	5,782	5,149	7,334	5,814	6,423
AUGUST	5,882	5,680	6,958	6,775	7,338
SEPTEMBER	5,579	5,229	6,133	7,302	6,173
OCTOBER	5,875	4,557	6,554	4,806
NOVEMBER	5,256	4,379	6,043	5,165
DECEMBER	5,235	4,345	5,618	4,446
CALENDAR YEAR TOTAL	63,748	55,447	73,815	71,224	47,576

	01-02	02-03	03-04	04-05
FISCAL YEAR TOTAL	59,717	64,514	75,556	61,950

GRAIN TONNAGE
UNIT OF MEASURE: SHORT TONS

	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
JANUARY	263,126	261,694	46,575	341,700	191,507
FEBRUARY	167,777	192,958	316,343	374,832	369,205
MARCH	276,208	214,853	294,762	240,870	182,716
APRIL	90,730	183,222	213,451	302,149	288,844
MAY	261,803	71,706	248,993	323,822	304,853
JUNE	139,438	103,860	148,462	222,596	254,187
JULY	132,926	185,564	184,018	188,552	292,902
AUGUST	253,001	188,473	283,710	403,647	314,644
SEPTEMBER	253,799	248,681	404,916	421,317	462,782
OCTOBER	336,127	333,704	374,923	449,845
NOVEMBER	201,000	328,248	181,124	328,689
DECEMBER	198,401	315,615	340,865	313,073
CALENDAR YEAR TOTAL	2,574,336	2,628,577	3,038,142	3,911,092	2,661,640

	01-02	02-03	03-04	04-05
FISCAL YEAR	TOTAL	2,403,546	2,868,871	3,575,525	3,696,435

AUTO UNITS
UNIT OF MEASURE: # OF UNITS

	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
JANUARY	22,202	27,339	30,665	26,187	28,907
FEBRUARY	32,536	32,492	25,649	23,590	31,361
MARCH	22,680	37,446	34,252	34,014	30,995
APRIL	32,645	32,609	33,377	25,988	32,096
MAY	23,533	34,212	28,579	33,091	30,991
JUNE	29,374	31,607	30,924	32,242	35,012
JULY	32,111	34,903	27,671	28,183	27,768
AUGUST	31,632	30,075	20,343	27,292	23,795
SEPTEMBER	33,657	28,463	25,552	30,138	18,791
OCTOBER	33,413	32,815	34,314	31,663
NOVEMBER	30,878	35,903	41,278	37,865
DECEMBER	31,855	36,912	33,779	28,429
CALENDAR YEAR TOTAL	356,516	394,776	366,383	358,682	259,716

	01-02	02-03	03-04	04-05
FISCAL YEAR TOTAL	389,251	382,517	358,049	372,932

MINERAL BULK TONNAGE
UNIT OF MEASURE: SHORT TONS

	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
JANUARY	279,502	388,840	374,684	276,424	292,486
FEBRUARY	442,887	293,405	471,532	425,551	316,684
MARCH	370,587	346,564	422,096	354,333	591,572
APRIL	423,545	374,058	434,360	451,019	454,474
MAY	327,828	279,367	295,409	329,799	381,269
JUNE	303,060	365,318	406,803	371,356	424,109
JULY	368,034	256,652	241,016	244,440	274,145
AUGUST	289,112	285,387	390,529	337,681	407,822
SEPTEMBER	388,255	295,081	410,666	314,157	273,045
OCTOBER	294,705	281,502	346,068	446,463
NOVEMBER	345,256	419,781	334,931	434,541
DECEMBER	307,855	446,322	391,163	471,411
CALENDAR YEAR TOTAL	4,140,626	4,032,277	4,519,257	4,457,175	3,415,606

	01-02	02-03	03-04	04-05
FISCAL YEAR TOTAL	4,040,769	4,389,609	4,322,855	4,709,287

CUBIC YARDS PUMPED -- DREDGE "OREGON"
UNIT OF MEASURE: CUBIC YARDS

	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
JANUARY	0	0	0	0	0
FEBRUARY	0	0	0	0	0
MARCH	0	0	0	0	0
APRIL	0	0	0	0	0
MAY	0	328,978	0	0	0
JUNE	351,313	663,505	782,010	582,512	235,825
JULY	666,562	662,476	552,641	588,685	804,755
AUGUST	874,563	731,962	919,408	538,302	852,433
SEPTEMBER	481,144	436,505	556,740	639,375	189,979
OCTOBER	40,000	184,221	598,442	0	0
NOVEMBER	0	0	0	0	0
DECEMBER	0	0	0	0	0
CALENDAR YEAR TOTAL	2,413,582	3,007,647	3,409,241	2,348,874	2,082,992

	01-02	02-03	03-04	04-05
FISCAL YEAR TOTAL	3,054,752	2,797,174	3,209,743	2,002,187