The aggregate throughput of the stevedoring companies incorporated in Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port Group made 82.4 mn tons during January-July 2018 declining 3.41% year-on-year.
The only commodity group that declined was liquid bulk, which accounts for the major share in the group’s aggregate throughput. Other cargo categories demonstrated an upward trend.
Liquid bulk dropped 8.3% year-on-year down to 59.2 mn tons, mainly to a decline in crude oil handling, which accounts for 64% of the aggregate liquid bulk volume.
Crude oil traffic was down 16.2% to 37.8 mn tons in aggregate, Novorossiysk saw its volume decline 13.4%, and Primorsk 18%.
Oil products volume, on the contrary, grew 10.3% up to 20.7 mn tons.
Solid bulk increased 16.8% up to 10.1 mn tons. The growth was solely due to increasing export of grains. Grain handling surged 39.9% up to 7.2 mn tons.
Chemicals were down 33.6% to 340 thousand tons, coal down 25.3% to 936 thousand tons, iron ore down 2.7% to 1.5 mn tons, and raw sugar down 40.8% to 122 thousand tons.
General cargo grew 4.5% up to 8.6 mn tons, the only commodity in this group that actually grew was ferrous metals, which were up 6.3% to 7.8 mn tons.
Non-ferrous metals were down 6.7% to 625 thousand tons, timber and logs down 13.2% to 178 thousand tons, and perishables down 3.5% to 166 thousand tons.