Freight volume handled at the Port of Vladivostok based in Primorsky Territory in 2015 dropped year-on-year by 16% to 12,899 million tonnes, the harbour Captain Igor Glukhov told IAA PortNews.
The volume includes 4.512 million tonnes of exports, 2,468 million tonnes of imports, 0.115 million tonnes of transit cargo and 5,804 million tonnes of short sea cargo.
In 2015 the port registered 5,632 ship calls (2014 – 6,179 calls). The number includes arrivals of 42 passenger ships that carried 9,877 passengers, 3,005 of them from three cruise ships.
Igor Glukhov said the port expects in 2016 a slight increase in passenger vessel calls with six arrivals of foreign cruise liners.
"It is clear that the decline in throughput is due to the well-known macro-economic and political factors. A nearly twofold drop in imports proves and the reduction was largely attributed to the decline of container traffic," the Port of Vladivostok Captain said.
Commercial Seaport of Vladivostok (member of FESCO Transport Group), owns and operates its assets at the port of Vladivostok, a premier Russian seaport in the Far East region. Port of Vladivostok has 17 berths of total length of 4 km and specializes in handling general, bulk and containerized cargo. Each berth has railway tracks of total length of 20 km. The near-dock rail yard capacity is 1,000 rail cars a day.