Throughput of the port of Nakhodka in the past eleven months of this year fell 4% from January-November of 2010, to 13.67 million tons, the Port Authority said.
In November, cargo traffic grew by 11.6%, 1,239,100 tons.
Eleven-month volume of dry bulk cargo dropped by 2.8% to 7,627,600 tons. Shipments of hard coal declined by 29% to 3,446,600 tons, timber exports totaled 505,000 tons (-7.5%).
Handling of general cargo fell by 20.5% to 3,604,900 tons, including 2,852,900 tons of ferrous metals (-25.2%) and 395,500 tons of nonferrous metals (+21.4%).
Container traffic rose by 7% from a year earlier, to 1,962 TEUs. Crude oil shipments fell by 5.5% to 6,450,400 tons.
Russian Port of Nakhodka is located in the northern Bay of Nakhodka. The year-round navigable Port is connected via Trans-Siberian Railroad with the entire network of Russian and Western Europe’s railroads. In 2010, cargo throughput of Nakhodka port dropped year-over-year by 2.6% to 15.32 million tons.