• 2012 November 12 16:42

    Russian seaports’ cargo volumes grow 5.7 percent

    Shipments of cargo through the Russian seaports in January-October increased by 5.7% year-on-year to 469 million tons, the Association of Seaports report said.

    The ten-month volume of dry bulk cargo grew 9% reaching 210.3 million tons. The increase was driven mainly by a 12.1% growth (73.7 mln tons) in coal exports, a 8.6-percent gain (35.5 mln mt) in containerized cargoes, a 9.8-percent increase (22.1 mln mt) in ferrous metals volume. Grain shipments totaled 20.5 million tons, ferries cargo traffic rose 9.4% to 6.9 mln mt, handling of non-ferrous metals rose 5.0% to 3.6 million tons. Mineral fertilizer volume dropped by 14.6% y-o-y to 8.9m tons, shipments of iron ore fell 11.2% to 6.1m tons. Handling of unitized cargo fell 6.4% to 4.7m tons, refrigerated cargo volumes were down 17.5% to 3.1m tons.
     
    Shipments of liquid bulk through the nation’s ports totaled 258.7 million tons, which represents a 3.1% gain from a year earlier, including 163.6 million tons of crude exports (+1.2%) and 92.8 million tons of oil products (+5.7%).

    In the reporting period the Russian ports saw a year-over-year 9.2-percent growth in exports, to 370.3 million tons. Imports fell 1% from last year’s numbers, to 37.3 million tons. Short sea traffic volume fell 4.1% to 25.9 million tons on the back of crude exports decline, while shipments of dry bulk cargo carried by coastal vessels rose 6.8% year-on-year to 15.8 million tons.

    In the reporting period, stevedore companies of the Arctic basin handled 31.5 million tons of cargoes, which represent a 10.7% decline from January-October 2011. Shipments of dry bulk cargo grew through the region’s terminals rose 8.8% to 20.2 million tons. The port of Arkhangelsk throughput rose by 19.8% to 4.4 mln tons, cargo traffic at Dudinka port climbed 3% to 900,000 tons. Cargo handling at the port of Murmansk fell 13.2% to 18.99 mln tons, Vitino port’s throughput fell 13.4% to 3.1 mln tons, exports volume passing through Varandey terminal slumped by 1.6 times, to 2.3m tons, Kandalaksha port handled 600,000 tons (-20.6%).

    In January-October, the Baltic Sea-based Russian ports moved 172.2 million tons of different cargoes, up 12.2% from the last year’s figure, including 63.1 million tons of dry bulk cargo (+6.3%), 109.1 million tons of liquid bulk (+16%). Cargo throughput at Primorsk terminal was up 2.5% to 63.5 million tons. Port of Ust-Luga traffic soared 2.1 times to 37.8 million tons, thanks to coal exports growth and commissioning of new oil terminals. Port of Vyborg handled 1.2 million tons (+36.6%). Big Port St. Petersburg cargo volumes fell 3.8% to 48.4 million tons, cargo shipments through the port of Kaliningrad dropped 8.3% to 10.4 million tons, Port of Vysotsk transshipped 10.9 million tons (-2.9%).

    Handling of exports / imports at the ports of Azov-Black Sea basin in the reporting period totaled 146.1 million tons (+2.9%). Dry bulk cargo volume rose 13.4% to 57.8 million tons, while liquid bulk traffic was down 3.0% to 88.3 million tons.  Cargo throughput at the Port of Novorossiysk totaled 98.2 mln tons, up 2.1% from a year earlier. The port of Taman cargo volumes surged 1.4 times to 1.1 mln tons. Shipments of cargo at the port of Rostov-on-Don increased by 16.9% to 9.5 million tons. Freight traffic passing through the port of Kavkaz grew 12.7% to 7.9 million tons. Port of Azov ten-month throughput rose 16.1% to 4.4 million tons. Cargo traffic at the port of Tuapse shrank by 6.1% to 14.9 tons, at the port of Temryuk – by 10.1% to 1.8 million tons.

    The Caspian Sea-based Russian ports transshipped 8.7 million tons, a 3.8-percent gain year-on-year, including dry bulk cargo - 4.1 million tons (-5.1%), liquid bulk – 4.7 million tons (+13.3%). Freight traffic at the port of Astrakhan fell 20.6% to 2.8 million tons. The port of Makhachkala cargo volumes rose 18.4% to 5.2 million tons. Handling of loads at the port of Olya increased by 1.5 times to 700,000 tons.

    In January-October, the ports of the Far Eastern basin saw a 5.4-percent gain in cargo volumes to 110.5 million tons. Shipments of dry bulk cargo through the regional ports rose 9% to 65.1 million tons, liquid bulk traffic was up 0.6% to 45.4 million tons. Vostochny port handled 34.6 million tons of cargo (+7.1%). Port Vanino throughput rose 4.3% to 16.6 million tons. Stevedore companies of the Port of Nakhodka handled 14 mln tons (+12.7%). The Port of Vladivostok saw a 12.4-percent growth to 11.1 mln tons. The port of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky handled 1.9 mln tons of different cargoes (+2.1%). Cargo shipments via the port of De Kastri dropped 11% to 6.1 million tons, throughput of the port of Kholmsk totaled 1.6 mln tons (-10.4%).


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