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2021 January 21   12:52

Throughput of Port St. Petersburg in 2020 remained flat, year-on-year

Liquid bulk cargo transshipment rose with handling of dry bulk cargo having shown a decrease

In January-December 2020, the Port of St. Petersburg handled 59.88 million tonnes of cargo (flat, year-on-year). According to the port authority, transshipment of liquid bulk cargo grew by 16% to 11.42 million tonnes, dry bulk cargo – fell by 6% to 8.2 million tonnes, handling of general cargo – up 1% to 11.99 million tonnes, transshipment of Ro-Ro cargo – down 4% to 1,152,600 tonnes, dry loose cargo – down 22% to 261,100 tonnes including 251,700 tonnes of timber (-39%).

The port’s container throughput fell by 5% to 2,099,649 TEU.

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:

59,325.4

59,879.5

59,884.4

100%

 

DRY BULK CARGO including:

8,448.3

8,751.2

8,205.7

94%

 

Ore

818.1

730.2

870.1

119%

 

Coal, coke

324.9

180.3

54.8

30%

 

Mineral fertilizers

7,302.9

7,773.8

7,144.3

92%

 

Other

2.4

66.9

136.5

2-fold growth

 

DRY LOOSE CARGO including:

328.9

334.1

261.1

78%

 

Grain

273.2

269.3

159.0

59%

 

Other

55.7

64.8

102.0

158%

 

TIMBER

344.1

411.0

251.7

61%

 

GENERAL CARGO including:

13,720.7

11,890.2

11,992.7

101%

 

Ferrous metal

6,278.7

4,943.6

5,230.4

106%

 

Non-ferrous metal

1,343.9

1,299.2

914.2

70%

 

Metal scrap

1,901.1

1,483.7

1,853.0

125%

 

Packaged

1,368.9

1,559.8

1,651.5

106%

 

Reefer

1,341.8

1,317.4

1,122.8

85%

 

including fish

399.5

423.3

323.7

76%

 

Other

1,486.3

1,286.5

1,220.8

95%

 

CONTAINERS

25,942.5

27,419.7

26,591.2

97%

 

Total teus

2,130,721

2,221,724

2,099,649

95%

 

including refrigerated containers:

270,400

255,285

260,797

102%

 

CARGO CARRIED by FERRIES

1.6

44.5

1.2

3%

 

RO-RO

1,414.7

1,205.9

1,152.6

96%

 

LIQUID BULK CARGO including:

9,124.7

9,823.0

11,428.2

116%

 

Oil products

9,124.7

9,823.0

11,428.2

116%

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