In 2007, river ports of Russia increased their throughput by 17.6%, year-on-year, to 225.5 million tonnes, PortNews IAA learnt from the Ministry of Transport. Transshipment of export cargo amounted to 17.5 million tonnes (+21.7%, year-on-year), import – 1.4 million tonnes (+14.3%), internal – 206.6 million tonnes (+17.3%).
32% of total volume (71.5 million tonnes, + 21.7%) falls on the companies of Privolzhski federal district: Azimuth OJSC, Cheboksary river port OJSC, Nizhni Novgorod port OJSC, Samara river port OJSC, Sarapul river port OJSC.
The companies of Central federal district handled 52.4 million tonnes of cargo (+10.0%): Port Kolomna OJSC – 9.9 million tonnes (+20.2%), Yaroslavl river port OJSC – 5.0 million tonnes (+47.7%).
As for North-West federal district, the volume handled by Leningrad river port OJSC grew by 23.2% to 16.5 million tonnes, Tobolsk river port OJSC – up 15.4 % to 7.4 million tonnes.
In Siberian federal district, Tomsk shipping OJSC handled 7.6 million tonnes (+32.4 %), Novorosibirsk river port OJSC – 3.4 million tonnes (+14.2%).
In Far East district: Khabarovsk river port OJSC increase cargo handling by 10.2 % to 3.6 million tonnes, Commercial port Blagoveshchensk – up 38.6 % to 1.2 million tonnes.