Throughput of Russian seaports up 4.7% to 284.1 mln t in HI’13
In January-June, Russian seaports handled 284.1 mln t of cargo (+4.7%, year-on-year), Association of Commercial Sea Ports states.
In the reported period, transshipment of dry cargo totaled 119.1 mln t (-2.3%) including 48.6 mln t of coal (+14.9%), 21.7 mln t of containerized cargo (+3.0%), 6.1 mln t of mineral fertilizers (+17.0%). Transshipment of ferrous metal fell to 11.6 mln t (-17.6%), ore – to 3.6 mln t (-8.5%), timber cargo – to 2.3 mln t (-29.4%). Grain transshipment has dropped considerably – by 72.5%.
Transshipment of liquid bulk cargo made 165.0 mln t (+10.3%) including 104.0 mln t of crude oil (+9.3%).
Transshipment of export cargo reached 222.4 mln t (+3.5%, year-on-year), import cargo – 23.5 mln t (+9.9%), transit cargo – 22.6 mln t (+0.3%), coastal trade cargo – 15.6 mln t (+22.9%).
Operators of the Arctic Basin terminals handled 22.9 mln t of cargo (+33.2%, year-on-year) including 11.7 mln t of dry cargo (+0.6%) and 11.2 mln t of liquid bulk cargo (up two-fold).
The growth of liquid bulk cargo transshipment should be attributed to the increased transshipment of crude via the Belokamenka terminal. Total throughput of Murmansk port made 15.2 mln t (+38.9%), Varandey - 2.5 mln t (up 2.4 times), Vitino – 2.1 mln t (+9.4%), Arkhangelsk 2.3 mln t (the same as in HI’12).
The ports of the Baltic Basin handled 105.5 mln t of cargo (+ 7.7%) including 39.7 mln t of dry cargo (+8.0%), 65.8 mln t of liquid bulk cargo (+7.4%). Throughput of Ust-Luga port hit 29.0 mln t (up 1.5 times), Vysotsk – 8.1 mln t (+31.0%), Kaliningrad - 7.2 mln t (+13.0%). At the same time, throughput of Primorsk fell by 13.0% to 33.3 mln t, throughput of Big Port St. Petersburg was down 1.7% to 27.4 mln t.
Throughput of Azov - Black Sea Basin port reached 81.1 mln t (-4.7%, year-on-year) including 26.1 mln t of dry cargo (-20.1%, mainly with a decreased transshipment of grain) and 55.0 mln t of liquid bulk cargo (+4.8%). The port of Novorossiysk handled 55.8 mln t of cargo (-6.6%), Tuapse - 7.8 mln t (-15.5%), Rostov - 4.3 mln t (-6.3%), Kavkaz - 3.2 mln t (-8.7%). The following ports improved their results: Taman – to 3.6 mln t, Sochi - to 1.2 mln t (+20.9%) .
In the Caspian Basin, seaports handled 4.0 mln t of cargo (-22.6%, year-on-year) including 1.4 mln t of dry cargo (-42.7%) and 2.6 mln t of liquid bulk cargo (-4.3%). Throughput of port Makhachkala lost 10.0%, Astrakhan - 35.0% with Olya throughput down 2.8 times.
The ports of the Far East Basin handled 70.5 mln t of cargo (+7.0%) including 40.2 mln t of dry cargo (+4.8%) and 30.3 mln t of liquid bulk cargo (+10.1%). The increase was registered at the ports of Vostochny - 17.3% to 24.2 mln t, Vanino - 20.8% to 12.2 mln t, Nakhodka - 7.6% to 9.0 mln t, Vladivostok - 3.6% to 6.9 mln t. Throughput of Prigorodnoye fell by 3.7% to 8.2 mln t, De-Castri – by 11.0% to 3.3 mln t, Posiet – by 10.9% to 2.6 mln t.
Association of Sea Commercial Ports (ASOP) set up in 1987 unites over 50 organizations and enterprises of Russia’s maritime transport. ASOP comprises commercial seaports, forwarding and agency companies, scientific research institutes and marine educational institutions. Operational results of Russian port sector are based on statistics reports and cover all stevedoring companies operating in the Russian Federation. Full statistics is available in a quarter report of ASOP “Cargo transshipment via seaports of Russia, CIS and Baltic states”.
