Throughput of Russian seaports review in January 2018

In January 2018 in Russian seaports handled 61.9 mln t of cargo (+2.4%, year-on-year), says the press center of Association of Commercial Sea Ports.

Transshipment of dry bulk cargo totaled 27.9 mln t (+11%) including:
11.8 mln t of coal (+15%);
3.8 mln t of containerized cargo (-8.5%);
3 mln t of grain (+26.3%);
2.5 mln t of ferrous metal (+7.7%);
1.4 mln t of mineral fertilizers (-0.2%);
217 thou t refrigerated cargo (-0.3%).

Transshipment of liquid bulk cargo decreased by 3.8% to 34 mln t including:
19.9 mln t of crude oil (-2.7%);
11.8 mln t of oil products (-9.2%);
1.7 mln t of liquefied gas (+29.6%).

Export cargo handled 47.9 mln t (-0.2%), imports – 3 mln t (-0.2%), transit – 5.1 mln t (+19%), coastal freight shipments – 5.8 mln t (+1.5%).

In January 2018 total container turnover of Russian seaports increased by 11.8% year-on-year to 378.8 thou TEU, including imports — 167.4 thou TEU (+14.4%); loading export – 94.7 thou TEU (+9.8%); empty export – 62.5 thou TEU (+12.3%); coastal freight shipments — 48.7 thou TEU (+7.6%), transit — 5.5 thou TEU (+5%).

Review of basin specification in January 2018:

The operators of the Arctic Basin terminals handled 6.7 mln t of cargo (+38.6%, year-on-year) including 4.2 mln t of liquid bulk cargo (+ 34.5%) and 2.4 mln t of dry cargo (+46.3%). Throughput of port of Murmansk amounted 4.6 mln t (+38%), Varandei – 0.7 mln t (-9.9%), Sabetta – 981.2 thou t (up in 2 times), Arkhangelsk – 215.7 thou t (+56%), Kandalaksha – 157.9 thou t (up in 2.6 times).
Container turnover in ports of Arctic Basin up 15.8% to 11.06 thou TEU, from which is the main part it’sit is a coastal freight shipments – 11.05 thou TEU (+15.8%), export – 10 TEU (+11.1%). Container turnover on Ports: Dudinka – 4.9 thou TEU (24.4%), Murmansk – 3.12 thou TEU (9.4%), Arkhangelsk – 3.05 thou TEU (+10.4%).

The ports of the Baltic Basin handled 19.8 mln t (-4%) including 8.7 mln t of dry cargo (+19.5%) and 11 mln t of liquid bulk cargo (-16.9%). Throughput on Ports: Ust-Luga – 8.6 mln t (+5.8%), Primorsk – 3.7 mln t (-34.1%), Big Port St. Petersburg – 4.4 mln t (+8.5%), Vysotsk – 1.7 mln t (+12.5%).
The container turnover in ports of Baltic Basin increased by 7.5% to 181.59 thou TEU, including loaded export – 62.3 thou TEU (+11.1%), empty export – 25.8 thou TEU (+2.2%), import – 93.5 thou TEU (+6.7%). Container turnover on Ports: Big Port of St. Petersburg – 158.37 thou TEU (+7.9%), port of Ust-Luga – 7.97 thou TEU (+19.5%), Kaliningrad – 15.28 thou TEU (-2%).

The operators of seaports of Azov – Black Sea Basin handled 19.8 mln t (-0.1%) including 7.7 mln t of dry cargo (+0.1%) and 12 mln t of liquid bulk cargo (-0.2%). Throughput on Ports: port of Novorossiysk – 12.2 mln t (+5.4%), Tuapse – 2.1 mln t (-5%), Kavkaz – 1.3 mln t (-23.8%), Taman – 1 mln t (-16.9%), Rostov-on-Don – 1 mln t (+12.3%), Azov – 0.47 mln t (+12.4%), Taganrog – 0.22 mln (+24.3%), Eisk – 0.29 mln t (+15.7%), Temruk – 0.29 mln (+3.9%), port of Crimea – 0.75 mln t (+7.7%), Kerch – 0.6 mln t (-12.6%).
Container turnover in ports of Azov – Black Sea basin amounted 67.7 thou TEU (+19.2%), including loading export – 15.7 thou TEU (+1.3%), empty export – 16.7 thou TEU (+18.4%), import – 34.2 thou TEU (+29.1%), coastal freight shipments – 1.1 thou TEU (+55.4%), transit – 70 TEU (+29.6%). Container turnover on Ports: Novorossiysk – 66.5 thou TEU (+19.5%), Azov – 0.54 thou TEU (-21.1%), Sevastopol – 0.51 thou TEU (+22.5%), Kavkaz – 0.15 thou TEU.

The ports of the Caspian Basin handled 426 thou t of cargo (+45.9%) including 240 thou t of dry cargo (+9.3%) and 185 thou t of liquid bulk cargo (up 1.5 times). Throughput of port of Makhachkala up in 2.4 times to 237 thou t, Astrakhan – 157 thou t (-22.3%), Olya port – 30 thou t (+63.9%).
Container turnover of the Caspian Basin down 33.7% to 197 TEU, including export – 108 TEU (-22.9%), import –42.5%, coastal freight shipments –45.5%.

Throughput in ports of Far East Basin up to 15.2 mln t (+1.8%) including 8.7 mln t of dry cargoes (+6.4%) and 6.4 mln t of liquid bulk cargo (-3.9%). Port Vostochny handled 5.5 mln t (-0.1%), Vanino – 2.3 mln t (+15.8%), Nakhodka – 1.8 mln t (-6.3%), Prigorodnoye – 1.5 mln t (-8.5%), Vladivostok – 1.5 mln t (+25.6%), De-Castri – 1 mln t (+9.6%), Posiet – 0.5 mln t (-17.9%).
The Far East Basin ports container turnover amounted 118.25 thou TEU (+14.6%), including: loading export – 16.6 thou TEU (+13.8%), empty export – 20- 20 thou TEU (+22.6%), import – 39.7 thou TEU (+23.5%), transit – 5.5 thou TEU (+4.7%), coastal freight shipments – 36.5 thou TEU (+14.4%). Container turnover on Ports:(loading export – 219.25 thou TEU (+23.7%), empty export – 224.61 thou TEU (44.4%)), import – 451.94 thou TEU (+38.1%), transit – 65.21 thou TEU (+20.7%), short-sea shipping – 522.59 thou TEU (+8.1%). Container turnover by ports: Vladivostok – 63.6 thou TEU (+11.3 %), Vostochny – 34.97 thou TEU (+28.9%), Korsakov – 7.33 thou TEU (+8.7%), Petropavlovsk – Camchatsky – 6.96 thou TEU (+49.2%).

Association of Commercial Sea Ports (ASOP) set up in 1987 unites over 50 organizations and enterprises of Russia’s maritime transport. ASOP comprises commercial seaports, forwarding and agency companies, scientific research institutes and marine educational institutions. Operational results of Russian port sector are based on statistics reports and cover all stevedoring companies operating in the Russian Federation.

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