Throughput of Russian seaports in H1’2021 climbed by 0.3% Y-o-Y

The half-year results have interrupted the decrease

In January-June 2021, Russian seaports handled 412.13 million tonnes of cargo, up 0.3% year-on-year, says the Federal Marine and River Transport Agency (Rosmorrechflot).

In the reported period, handling of dry bulk cargo rose by 8.0% to 200.78 million tonnes while handling of liquid bulk cargo fell by 6% to 211.35 million tonnes.

Throughput of seaports in the Arctic Basin fell by 1.7% to 46.27 million tonnes including 13.36 million tonnes of dry bulk cargo (+0.7%) and 32.91 million tonnes of liquid bulk cargo (-2.7%).

Throughput of seaports in the Baltic Basin fell 3.4% to 123.54 million tonnes including 57.6 million tonnes of dry bulk cargo (+6.4%) and 65.94 million tonnes of liquid bulk cargo (-10.7%).
 
Throughput of seaports in the Azov-Black Sea Basin rose by 2.2% to 125.55 million tonnes including 53.42 million tonnes of dry bulk cargo (+11.3%) and 72.13 million tonnes of liquid bulk cargo (-3.6%).
 
Throughput of seaports in the Caspian Basin fell by 12.2% to 3.67 million tonnes including 1.26 million tonnes of dry bulk cargo (- 30.2%) and 2.41 million tonnes of liquid bulk cargo (+1.4%).

Throughput of seaports in the Far East Basin continues growing. In the reported period it totaled 113.1 million tonnes (+3.9%) including 75.14 million tonnes of dry bulk cargo (+9.3%) and 37.96 million tonnes of liquid bulk cargo (-5.4%).

According to Rosmorrechflot, cargo handling in the ports of the Russian Federation had been growing for more than 23 years before May 2020 when anti-COVID19 restrictions began affecting both global and national economy with the transport sector in particular.