Throughput of Russian ports up 7.7% in Jan-Oct 07, y-o-y

The largest stevedoring company of the region – Primorsk Commercial Seaport LLC – handled 62.1 million tonnes of liquid bulk cargo (+14%). Throughput of the second largest company – Murmansk Commercial Seaport OJSC totaled 11.8 million tonnes (-2%). Throughput of RPK-Vysotsk LUKOIL-II grew by 26% to 10.3 million tonnes, Sea Port of St. Petersburg OJSC – grew by 5% to 10.1 million tonnes, Petersburg Oil Terminal CJSC – grew by 8% to 9.67 million tonnes.

Throughput of the ports in Russia’s southern region grew by 1.5% (+2 million tonnes), year-on-year, to 135.8 million tonnes. Transshipment of fry cargo totaled 42.6 million tonnes (+8%), liquid bulk cargo – 93.1 million tonnes (-1.3%). The ports of Russia’s southern region account for 36% of total volume handled by Russian port complex.

According to the source, 70% of cargoes handled by Russian southern ports (or 95.4 million tonnes) fall on stevedoring companies of the port of Novorossiysk accounting for 53% of dry cargo and 78% of liquid bulk cargo. Over 12% of total regional throughput falls on the port of Tuapse. Throughput of the region’s leader – Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port JSC totaled 59.6 million tonnes (-4.2%) including 14.4 million tonnes of dry cargo (-1.8) and 45.2 million tonnes of liquid bulk cargo (-5%).

Throughput of the Far Eastern port grew by 15% (or + 8.8 million tonnes) to 66.2 million tonnes of cargo, which makes 17.6% of the country’s total throughput. Transshipment of liquid bulk cargo grew by 68% to 21.6 million tonnes. The growth should be attributed mainly to introduction of Exxon Neftegaz oil terminal in De-Castry. It was put into operation in late 2006 and in the reported period it handled 9.3 million tonnes of cargo.