The volume of cargo carried through the Volga-Baltic Canal during this year navigation reached 22 million tons, a record volume for the past 10 years and up 20% from last year’s navigational period, the Volga-Baltic Canal Authority statistics said.
According to Vladimir Nikolayev, head of the State Basin Department ‘Volga-Balt’, shipments of construction materials for the period increased as much as 1.5 times on 2010’s figure, to 10.5 million tons, petroleum products traffic rose by 3.5% to 5.5 million tons, timber cargo volume increased by 11.2% to 1.55 million tons, ferrous metal transits decreased by 11.4% to 1.52 million tons, fluxes volume shrank by 30.1% up to 807,200 tons, of scrap metal - rose by 1.5 times to 457,000 tons, fertilizers volume was down 13.5% to 405,900 tons, transportation of slag increased by 1.9 times to 707,800 tons.
Transit navigation through the Volga-Baltic Canal was closed as of Nov. 16, 2011.
According to Vladimir Nikolayev, head of the State Basin Department ‘Volga-Balt’, shipments of construction materials for the period increased as much as 1.5 times on 2010’s figure, to 10.5 million tons, petroleum products traffic rose by 3.5% to 5.5 million tons, timber cargo volume increased by 11.2% to 1.55 million tons, ferrous metal transits decreased by 11.4% to 1.52 million tons, fluxes volume shrank by 30.1% up to 807,200 tons, of scrap metal - rose by 1.5 times to 457,000 tons, fertilizers volume was down 13.5% to 405,900 tons, transportation of slag increased by 1.9 times to 707,800 tons.
Transit navigation through the Volga-Baltic Canal was closed as of Nov. 16, 2011.