Throughput of Russian seaports in Jan-Apr'17 up 10.9% Y-o-Y to 250.3 mln t
In January-April 2017, Russian seaports handled 250.3 mln t of cargo (+10.9%, year-on-year), says the press center of Association of Commercial Sea Ports.
Transshipment of dry bulk cargo totaled 110.9 mln t (+10%) including 47.3 mln t of coal (+18.8%), 15.2 mln t of containerized cargo (+11.9%), 11.5 mln t of grain (+18.9%), 9.6 mln t of ferrous metal (-1.9%), 5.5 mln t of mineral fertilizers (+6.3%), 1 mln t of refrigerated cargo (+0.5%).
Transshipment of liquid bulk cargo totaled 139.4 mln t (+11.6%) including 85.5 mln t of crude oil (+14.6%), 47.3 mln t of oil products (+6.2%) and 5 mln t of liquefied gas (+12.6%).
Exports totaled 197.1 mln t (+7.8%), imports - 10.9 mln t (+9%), transit – 18.5 mln t (+12.7%), coastal trade cargo - 23.7 mln t (+44.4%).
Operators of the Arctic Basin terminals handled 22.5 mln t (+65.4%) including 14.5 mln t of liquid bulk cargo (+161.8%) and 8.3 mln t of dry cargo (+1.7%). The port of Murmansk handled 16.4 mln t (+82%), Varandei - 2.9 mln t (+15.6%).
The ports of the Baltic Sea handled 82.8 mln t (+7.4%) including 31.7 mln t (+13%) of dry cargo and 51.1 mln t of liquid bulk cargo (+4.3%). The port of Ust-Luga handled 33 mln t (+9.5%), Primorsk - 22.2 mln t (+4%), Big Port St. Petersburg - 16.8 mln t (+6.5%), Vysotsk - 6.2 mln t (+14.9%).
The ports of the Azov-Black Sea Basin handled 80.7 mln t (+8.5%) including 32.5 mln t of dry cargo (+8.6%) and 48.2 mln t of liquid bulk cargo (+8.5%). The port of Novorossiysk handled 48 mln t (+6.7%), Tuapse - 8.8 mln t (+8%), Kavkaz - 6.6 mln t (+14%), Taman - 5.2 mln t (+27.2%), Kerch - 2.9 mln t (+15.8%), Rostov-on-Don - 3.8 mln t (+9.1%).
Seaports of the Casppian Basin handled 1.1 mln t of cargo (-48.4%) including 0.8 mln t of dry cargo (-28.1%) and 0.3 mln t of liquid bulk cargo (-70.5%). The port of Makhachkala handled 0.3 mln t (-73.7%), Astrakhan - 0.7 mln t (-17.6%), Olya – 53,100 (-19%).
The ports of the Far East Basin handled 63.1 mln t of cargo (+8%) including 37.5 mln t of dry cargo (+12.1%) and 25.6 mln t of liquid bulk cargo (+2.6%). Port Vostochny handled 23.3 mln t (+9.3%), Vanino - 9.8 mln t (+1.2%), Nakhodka - 8.2 mln t (+7.8%), Prigorodnoye - 6.1 mln t (+11.8%), Vladivostok - 5.3 mln t (+17.8%), De-Castri - 4 mln t (-2.1%), Posiet - 2.7 mln t (-1.1%).