Throughput of Russian seaports up 3.7% to 488.7 mln t in Jan-Oct’13
In January-October, Russian seaports handled 488.7 mln t of cargo (+3.7%, year-on-year), says press center of Association of Commercial Sea Ports.
In the accounting period, transshipment of dry cargo remained flat at 211.4 mln t including 84.8 mln t of coal (+14.9%), 36.9 mln t of containerized cargo (+4.0%), 10.6 mln t of mineral fertilizers (+19.5%), 6.3 mln t of ore (+3.7%). Transshipment of ferrous metal dropped to 18.3 mln t (-17.5%), grain – to 13.4 mln t (-37.2%), timber – to 3.7 mln t (-27.5%).
Transshipment of liquid bulk cargo hit 277.3 mln t (+6.6%) including 173.0 mln t of crude (+5.3%).
Transshipment of export cargo reached 381.7 mln t (+2.5%), import – 38.5 mln t (+3.0%), transit – 38.8 mln t (+9.1%), coastal trade cargo – 29.7 mln t (+14.5%).
Operators of the Arctic Basin handled 38.8 mln t (+23.1%) including 20.7 mln t of dry cargo (+2.3%) and 18.1 mln t of liquid bulk cargo (up 1.6 times). The growth of liquid bulk transshipment was driven by the increase of Belokamenka terminal throughput. Total throughput of port Murmansk hit 25.8 mln t (+35.8%), port Varandey – 4.5 mln t (up 1.9 times). Throughput of port Arkhangelsk declined to 3.8 mln t (-13.9%), port Vitino – to 2.3 mln t (-27.0%).
The ports of the Baltic Basin handled 179.7 mln t of cargo (+3.9%) including 68.1 mln t of dry cargo (+7.8%) and 111.6 mln t of liquid bulk cargo (+1.6%). Throughput of port Ust-Luga climbed to 51.8 mln t (+36.9%), Vysotsk – to 13.5 mln t (+24.0%), Kaliningrad – to 11.3 mln t (+8.7%). At the same time, port Primorsk decreased transshipment to 53.7 mln t (-15.5%), Big Port St. Petersburg – to 48.2 mln t (-2.0%).
Throughput of Azov - Black Sea ports fell by 2.8%, year-on-year, to 143.4 mln t including 50.4 mln t of dry cargo (-14.0%) and 93.0 mln t of liquid bulk cargo (+4.6%). The port of Novorossiysk handled 93.7 mln t (-4.6%), Tuapse - 14.4 mln t (-3.3%), Rostov-on-Don - 8.9 mln t (-6.1%), Kavkaz - 6.5 mln t (-15.3%).
The ports of the Caspian Basin saw a 24.8-pct decrease of throughput to 6.6 mln t including 2.6 mln t of dry cargo (-38.2%) and 4.0 mln t of liquid bulk cargo (-12.9%). Throughput of port Makhachkala fell by 17.4%, Astrakhan - by 28.7%, Olya - 2.9 times.
Seaports of the Far East Basin handled 120.2 mln t of cargo (+8.7%) including 69.7 mln t of dry cargo (+6.9%), 50.5 mln t of liquid bulk cargo (+11.3%). Port Vostochny handled 40.3 mln t (+16.5%), Vanino - 19.8 mln t (+19.2%), Nakhodka - 15.3 mln t (+8.0%), Vladivostok - 12.1 mln t (+9.5%), Prigorodnoye - 13.2 mln t (-2.1%), De-Castri - 5.7 mln t (-6.9%), Posiet - 4.7 mln t (–5.5%).
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”.
