According to SeaNews PORTSTAT analytic online service, the total cargo throughput of the Baltic basin sea ports in January 2020 increased by 5.4% year-on-year. Export was up 6.3%, cabotage up 2.2% and transit grew by 14.9%. Import, on the contrary, declined by 6.5.
The share of the Baltic basin in the total cargo traffic via all the Russian seaports amounted to 32.2% in January 2020.
More than half of the total is oil and products, with oil products accounting for 30.2% of the overall throughput, and crude oil for 29.6%. Coal and coke have the third largest share in the aggregate throughput amounting to 15.4%.
It should be noted that the highest growth was in the liquid chemicals segment (up 2.9-fold), metal scrap (+63%) and ore (+38.8%).
The commodities that decreased the most were foodstuffs (-52.6%), LPG (-33.7%) and bulk (suction) (-32.1%).
Ust-Luga accounted for 40.9% of the aggregate cargo throughput via the Russian Baltic basin sea ports in January. Primorsk handled 27.1%, the Big Port of St. Petersburg 21.2%, Vyssotsk 7% and Kaliningrad 3.7% of the total.
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