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2018 September 17   14:50

Throughput of Port St. Petersburg up 12% to 39.39 million tonnes in 8M’18

In January-August 2018, The Port of St. Petersburg handled 39.39 million tonnes of cargo (+12%, year-on-year). According to the port authority, transshipment of oil products grew by 24% to 6.03 million tonnes, dry bulk cargo – dclined by 1% to 5.58 million tonnes, general cargo – up 8% to 9.08 million tonnes, transshipment of Ro-Ro cargo – up 21% to 949,900 tonnes.

The port’s container throughput increased by 12.3% to 1.43 million TEUs.

In 2017, the port handled 53.64 mln t of cargo, its container throughput was 1.92 mln TEUs.

 

Port

Type of cargo

Throughput thou t, 2016

Throughput thou t, 2017

Throughput thou t, 2018

2018 vs 2017

Port of Saint-Petersburg

TOTAL:

31,890.6

35,261.7

39,398.5

112%

 

Dry bulk cargo including:

4,892.0

5,657.2

5,584.3

99%

 

Ore

579.8

421.3

530.7

126%

 

Coal, coke

0.0

8.3

173.2

up

 

Mineral fertilizers

4,310.1

5,225.7

4,878.0

93%

 

Other

2.0

1.9

2.4

126%

 

Dry loose cargo including:

153.0

237.4

202.6

85%

 

Grain

130.0

223.9

169.5

76%

 

Other

23.0

13.5

33.2

up 2.5 times

 

Timber

165.2

140.7

216.8

154%

 

General cargo including:

8,043.1

8,417.9

9,081.6

108%

 

Ferrous metal

3,385.0

3,957.3

3,948.5

100%

 

Non-ferrous metal

1,063.0

1,007.7

1,149.6

114%

 

Metal scrap

1,198.1

980.3

1,218.7

124%

 

Packaged

434.9

571.2

890.1

156%

 

Reefer

1,147.9

1,030.9

835.0

81%

 

Including fish


212.5

207.7

 

 

Other

814.2

870.4

1,039.6

119%

 

Containers

13,689.7

15,085.7

17,324.0

115%

 

Total, teus

1,162,346

1,278,447

1,436,739


 

Including refrigerated containers:


157,234

185,799


 

Cargoes carried by ferries

258.2

79.0

1.3

2%

 

Ro-Ro

464.1

782.0

949.9

121%

 

Liquid bulk cargo including:

4,225.4

4,862.1

6,038.0

124%

 

Oil products

4,206.5

4,862.1

6,038.0


 

Food

18.9

0.0

0.0