Liquid bulk cargo handling continues growing while handling of dry bulk cargo are decreasing
In January-May 2020, the Port of St. Petersburg handled 24.92 million tonnes of cargo, which is flat, year-on-year. According to the port authority, handling of oil products grew by 26% to 4.75 million tonnes, dry bulk cargo – fell by 15% to 2.95 million tonnes, handling of general cargo – down 4% to 5.07 million tonnes, Ro-Ro cargo – down 20% to 424,500 tonnes, dry loose cargo – down 29% to 135,600 tonnes including 94,400 tonnes of timber (-39%).
The port’s container throughput fell by 5%, year-on-year, to 921,658 TEUs.
In 2019, the port handled 59.87 mln t of cargo, its container throughput was 2.22 mln TEUs.
|
Port |
Type of cargo |
Throughput thou t, 2018 |
Throughput thou t, 2019 |
Throughput thou t, 2020 |
2020 vs 2019 |
|
Port of Saint-Petersburg TOTAL |
24,730.9 |
25,012.4 |
24,921.9 |
100% |
|
|
|
DRY BULK CARGO including: |
3,608.3 |
3,481.3 |
2,958.2 |
85% |
|
|
Ore |
282.3 |
287.8 |
374.4 |
130% |
|
|
Coal, coke |
98.4 |
137.5 |
30.6 |
22% |
|
|
Mineral fertilizers |
3,227.6 |
3,052.0 |
2,478.1 |
81% |
|
|
Other |
0.0 |
4.1 |
75.1 |
1831% |
|
|
DRY LOOSE CARGO including: |
136.5 |
189.9 |
135.6 |
71% |
|
|
Grain |
114.2 |
163.5 |
90.3 |
55% |
|
|
Other |
22.3 |
26.4 |
45.3 |
172% |
|
|
TIMBER |
118.0 |
153.6 |
94.4 |
61% |
|
|
GENERAL CARGO including: |
5,818.2 |
5,285.1 |
5,077.5 |
96% |
|
|
Ferrous metal |
2,864.1 |
2,262.6 |
2,360.3 |
104% |
|
|
Non-ferrous metal |
506.8 |
643.4 |
452.3 |
70% |
|
|
Metal scrap |
712.4 |
612.2 |
699.4 |
114% |
|
|
Packaged |
518.2 |
643.4 |
657.9 |
102% |
|
|
Reefer |
541.4 |
512.3 |
425.8 |
83% |
|
|
including fish |
134.3 |
125.0 |
83.0 |
66% |
|
|
Other |
675.4 |
611.2 |
481.8 |
79% |
|
|
CONTAINERS |
10,843.4 |
11,591.7 |
11,479.5 |
99% |
|
|
Total teus |
898,759 |
966,595 |
921,658 |
95% |
|
|
including refrigerated containers: |
134,754 |
129,719 |
125,931 |
97% |
|
|
CARGO CARRIED by FERRIES |
0.9 |
15.4 |
0.5 |
3% |
|
|
RO-RO |
582.2 |
533.8 |
424.5 |
80% |
|
|
LIQUID BULK CARGO including: |
3,623.3 |
3,761.6 |
4,751.8 |
126% |
|
|
Oil products |
3,623.3 |
3,761.6 |
4,751.8 |
126% |