The ship Santa Cruz under the flag of Panama took on Board the 74`606 tons Latvian food wheat in the direction of the Middle East. Record for Ventspils (Latvia) shipboard party of wheat shipped cooperative Latraps is the largest Latvian exporter of grain cargoes.

Delivery of goods carried by railway cars and trucks. For comparison, shipped the equivalent of 1100 loaded railway wagons or 20 loaded railway trains. Shipment ship of the party was carried out both through the warehouse or directly from the incoming rail cars.

The company notes that zernoexport optimal use of the advantages of deep-sea terminal, which is the region's only allows for a single berth, without Peresvetov and additional costs to ship a record of the ship's party at minimal cost. Such favorable conditions in neighbouring ports-competitors can't offer you.

The advantages of a deep-water berth Ventspils grain terminal allows customers to ship large ship lot over 70 thousand tons of grain to remote markets in North Africa and the Middle East, while minimizing transportation costs.

The previous record set in 2013, when the vessel party tin was shipped to Iran.

Given the growing demand for the shipment of large vessel lots among Latvian and foreign partners, the terminal plans to implement large-scale investment project worth over 10 million tвро, which planned to increase storage capacity up to 130 thousand tons, upgrade handling technologies and systems for dust suppression.

Joint stock company Ventspils Grain Terminal operates in Ventspils Free port since 2005 and is a company with 100% local capital. The company is the operator of modern deep specialized complex for transshipment of grain cargoes. The complex is intended for accumulation and export of grain ship parties over 75,000 tons. The terminal capacity is 1.5 million tons of cargo per year.