Cargo turnover of Russian seaports increased by 10.5% in the first half of the year

The cargo turnover of Russian seaports in the first six months of this year increased by 10.5% in annual terms, amounting to 453.3 million tons, reported on the Rosmorrechflot website.

“The high growth rate of the overall indicator was ensured by a strong increase (+18.2%) in the transshipment of dry cargo, primarily grain, mineral and chemical fertilizers, coal and coke, which reached 224.7 million tons. Transshipment of liquid cargo across the country increased by 3 .9%, amounting to 228.6 million tons,” the report says.

The cargo turnover of the seaports of the Arctic Basin amounted to 49.5 million tons (+2% yoy), the Baltic – 129.8 million tons (+5.2%), the Azov-Black Sea – 151.2 million tons (+21.2% ), the Caspian – 3.6 million tons (+38%), the Far East – 78.9 million tons (+7.5%).

Earlier in March, Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Vitaly Savelyev meeting I spoke with President Vladimir Putin that by the end of 2022 the volume of traffic amounted to 842 million tons, in 2023 an increase in transshipment by about 8 million tons is expected. There are 63 seaports in Russia, with a total capacity of 1.28 billion tons, said he then. Rosmorrechflot today noted that the figure has increased to 1.3 billion tons, which is more than four times the total capacity of Russian seaports in 2000.

In early January, Rosmorrechflot, commenting on the results of 2022, pointed out successful reorientation of cargo flows from the North-Western Basin in the eastern direction – the cargo turnover of the Far Eastern ports increased by 8.3%.

The volume of production capacities of Russian ports increased over the past year by 36.64 million tons, the agency noted, thanks to the commissioning of the Taman bulk cargo terminal in the port of Taman with a capacity of 25 million, the construction of the Port Vera coal terminal in Primorye (4.55 million tons) and etc.

In 2023, the increase in this indicator will be ensured by the introduction of the capacities of the LNG terminal in the Murmansk region (10.4 million tons), the Sukhodol coal terminal in Primorsky Krai (12 million tons), the universal port terminal in Ust-Luga (8 million tons) and an LNG transshipment terminal in Bechevinskaya Bay (11 million tons).