In January-May 2018, the port of Rostov-on-Don handed 7.805 million tonnes of cargo (+23%, year-on-year), the port’s statistics shows.
The Harbour Master’s office says loading grew by 35% to 6.033 million tonnes which makes 81.2% of the port’s total throughput.
In the 5-month period, transit fell by 9% to 1.272 million tonnes making 16.3% of the total throughput.
Unloading has thus dropped by 27% to 195,000 tonnes.
In the reporting period, transshipment of grain grew 2.1 times to 3.700 million tonnes, transshipment of oil products climbed by 6% to 2.146 million tonnes.
The number of calls totaled 2,492.