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Coal transshipments at Russian seaports down 11.5% year-on-year in January-October 2024
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2024-11-25 11:13
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According to information released by the Press Center of the Russian Association of Commercial Seaports on November 12, the cumulative cargo throughput at Russian seaports in January-October 2024 was 743 million tons, down 3.2% from the same period last year. Among them, export cargo throughput was 586.6 million tons, down 2.8% year-on-year; 35.2 million tons of imported cargo, up 9% year-on-year; transit cargo transshipment was 54.8 million tons, flat compared to the same period of the previous year; and domestic coastal cargo transshipment was 66.5 million tons, down 13.1% year-on-year.
In the first 10 months, the transshipment volume of solid dry bulk cargoes in ports across Russia was 370.8 million tons, down 3.5% from the same period last year. Among them: transshipment of coal was 159.1 million tons, down 11.5% year-on-year. Also transshipped were 64.2 million tons of grain (+4.1% year-on-year), 45.5 million tons of containerized cargo (+9.9%), 15.6 million tons of ferrous metals (-14.5%), 9.6 million tons of ores (+16.4%), and 6.8 million tons of ferry cargo (-0.2%).
In the first 10 months, the volume of cargo transshipment at seaports in the Arctic Sea Basin was 77.4 million tons, down 5.5% year-on-year. Of this total, 22.3 million tons (-14.8%) were dry cargo transshipments and 55.1 million tons (-1.1%) were liquid cargo transshipments.
Among the ports of the Baltic Sea, the cargo turnover of the port of Ust-Luga amounted to 113.3 million tons (-0.6%), the port of Primorsk - 51.6 million tons (-2%), the Grand Port of St. Petersburg - 43.8 million tons (+8.8%), the port of Vysotsk - 10.1 million tons (-8.3%).
The cargo turnover of the seaports of the Azov-Black Sea basin amounted to 233 million tons (-7.3%), of which 111.1 million tons of dry cargoes (-9.6%) and 129.9 million tons of liquid cargoes (-5.2%) were transshipped.
The volume of cargo transhipment in the ports of the Caspian Basin was 6.9 million tons, an increase of 5.4 per cent year-on-year. Of this, 4.9 million tons (+14.9%) were dry cargo transshipments and 2.2 million tons (-10.6%) were liquid cargo transshipments. Among the main seaports, cargo transhipment at the port of Astrakhan amounted to 3.3 million tons (+4.2%), and cargo turnover at the port of Makhachkala was 2.7 million tons (-8.1%).
The volume of cargo transshipment at the seaports of the Far Eastern Basin amounted to 197.1 million tons, which is 1.9% less than the same period of the previous year. Of this, 129.2 million tons of dry cargo were transshipped dry (-3.7%), and 67.9 million tons of liquid cargo (+1.7%).
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