Baltic Basin Ports’ Throughput in September 2021: Ferrous Metals Up

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According to SeaNews PORTSTAT analytic online service, the total cargo throughput of the Baltic basin sea ports in September 2021 grew by 13% year-on-year. Export increased by 13.2%, and cabotage by 36.8%. Transit surged 2.6-fold. Import, on the contrary, declined by 6.4%.

The article is based on SeaNews PORTSTAT online service (available for SeaNews subsribers).

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The share of the Baltic basin in the total cargo traffic via all the Russian sea ports amounted to 29.7% in September 2021.

Almost half of the total was oil and products, with accounting oil products for 25.1% of the overall throughput, and crude oil for 24.5%. Coal and coke amounting to 20.7%.

It should be noted that the highest growth was in grain (+84.5%), non-ferrous metals (+78.2%) and ferrous metals (+74.5%) segments.

The commodities that decreased the most were other bulk (suction) (-58.6%), piece cargo (-10.1%) and timber and logs (-7.9%).

Ust-Luga accounted for 44.5% of the aggregate cargo throughput via the Russian Baltic basin sea ports in September 2021, the Big Port of St. Petersburg handled 25%, and Primorsk 19% of the total.