The volume of cargo transshipment in Russian seaports reduced by only 0.5% to 410 million tons in the first half of 2022, compared with the same period in 2021.

The CFTS portal reported this, citing the Morskiye Vesti publication, which provides data released by the Russian Association of Merchant Seaports.

During the reporting period, Russian seaports transshipped 325.9 million tons of export cargo (down 0.8% compared with the volume in the same period in 2021), 17.8 million tons of import cargo (down 11.0%), 31.9 million tons of transit cargo (down 0.6 %), and 34.4 million tons of cabotage cargo (up 9.6%).

The volume of transshipment of dry cargoes was 190.0 million tons (down 5.4%), including 97.3 million tons of coal (down 4.0%), 24.1 million tons of containerized cargoes (down 20.9 %), 15.3 million tons of grain (down 10.5%), 10.7 million tons of mineral fertilizers (up 15.6%), 6.8 million tons of ores (up 27.6%), and 13.5 million tons of ferrous metals (down 11.7%).

The volume of transshipment of bulk cargoes was 220.0 million tons (up 4.1%), including 130.6 million tons of crude oil (up 11.8%), 68.3 million tons of petroleum products (down 8.6%), 18.6 million tons of liquefied gas (up 7.5%), and 2.1 million tons of food cargoes (up 0.2%).

Russian seaports in the Arctic Basin had a cargo turnover of 48.4 million tons in the first half of 2022 (up 4.8%); Russian seaports in the Baltic basin had a cargo turnover of 123.3 million tons (down 0.2%), including 58.4 million tons at the Ust-Luga port (up 10.3%), 21.4 million tons at the St. Petersburg port (down 30.1%), and 30.5 million tons at the Primorsk port (up 16.8 %); Russian seaports in the Azov-Black Sea basin had a cargo turnover of 124.7 million tons (down 0.6%), including 21.4 million tons at the Taman port (up 29.8%) and 74.7 million tons at the Novorossiysk port (up 4.5%); Russian seaports in the Caspian Basin had a cargo turnover of 6 million tons (down 30.6%); Russian seaports in the Far East had a cargo turnover of 111.0 million tons (down 1.9%).