In January-May 2017, the port of Ust-Luga handled 41,485,400, down 1%, year-on-year, says Baltic Sea Ports Administration.
Transshipment of dry bulk cargo grew by 12% to 14,781,100 including 11,875,700 tonnes of coal and coke (up 4%).
Transshipment of liquid bulk cargo fell by 7% to 25,504,400 tonnes including 11,412,300 tonnes of crude oil (-17%) and 13,070,600 tonnes of oil products (+2%).
Transshipment of general cargo dropped by 26% to 237,200 tonnes.
Transshipment of cargoes carried by ferries totaled 554,100 tonnes (-16%).
The port’s container throughput climbed by 9.5% to 32,862 TEUs.
In 2017, the port handled 103.29 million tonnes of cargo, container throughput totaled 75,262 TEUs.
Ust-Luga port is situated practically at the border of the Russian Federation and the European Union. The deep water area of the port (17.5 m) together with the approach channel (3.7 km) make Ust-Luga port the only Russian port on the Baltic Sea capable of admitting dry-cargo vessels with the deadweight of up to 75,000 tonnes and liquid cargo carriers with the deadweight of up to 160,000 tonnes.
|
Port |
Type of cargo |
Throughput thou t, 2016 |
Throughput thou t, 2017 |
Throughput thou t, 2018 |
2018 vs 2017 % |
|
Ust-Luga |
TOTAL: |
37,671.2 |
42,055.9 |
41,485.4 |
99% |
|
|
DRY BULK CARGO including: |
10,379.9 |
13,246.7 |
14,781.1 |
112% |
|
|
Ore |
82.5 |
11.6 |
3.9 |
34% |
|
|
Coal and coke |
8,004.5 |
11,421.7 |
11,875.7 |
104% |
|
|
Mineral fertilizers |
1,446.3 |
977.4 |
1,464.5 |
150% |
|
|
Other |
846.6 |
836.0 |
1,437.0 |
172% |
|
|
LOOSE CARGO including: |
0.0 |
15.6 |
0.0 |
down |
|
|
Other |
0.0 |
15.6 |
0.0 |
|
|
|
TIMBER |
135.6 |
162.0 |
131.9 |
81% |
|
|
GENERAL CARGO including: |
287.2 |
321.2 |
237.2 |
74% |
|
|
Ferrous metal |
246.1 |
242.0 |
99.1 |
41% |
|
|
Packaged |
0.0 |
0.0 |
74.1 |
up |
|
|
Other |
41.1 |
79.2 |
64.0 |
81% |
|
|
CONTAINERs |
301.1 |
270.7 |
275.6 |
102% |
|
|
Teus |
31,539 |
30,012 |
32,862 |
|
|
|
Including reefer containers: |
393 |
121 |
||
|
|
CARGO CARRIED by FERRIES |
669.1 |
636.7 |
554.1 |
87% |
|
|
Ro-Ro |
9.1 |
2.7 |
1.2 |
44% |
|
|
LIQUID BULK CARGO, including: |
25,889.2 |
27,400.2 |
25,504.4 |
93% |
|
|
Crude oil |
12,113.0 |
13,718.9 |
11,412.3 |
83% |
|
|
Oil products |
13,092.8 |
12,854.6 |
13,070.6 |
102% |
|
|
Liquefied gas |
683.4 |
826.7 |
1,021.4 |
124% |