Discussions whether to build a new deep-water port or not could be launched if capacity utilization reached 75 percent. Until then it is necessary to bring the port in line with all maximum parameters and maintain its competitiveness.
“Speaking about the deepening of the port’s navigation channels, its quays, and efforts to achieve the maximum parameters, there is a possibility of a 50-percent growth of untapped capacities,” the daily quoted Vaidotas Šileika, CEO of Klaipėda Container Terminal and president of the Lithuanian Stevedoring Companies’ Association.
Aloyzas Kurmarskis, former president of the association and CEO of Klaipėda stevedoring company Bega, told the daily that he did not see any theoretical necessity to discuss possibilities to build a new deep-water port.
He added that the stevedoring companies believed that the building of a new port in Būtingė would be cost-ineffective now.
