According to SeaNews PORTSTAT analytic online service, the total cargo throughput of the Baltic basin sea ports in March 2020 remained much on the previous year’s level (+0.6%). Cabotage was up 34.5%. Export increased slightly by 0.7%. Import declined by 2%, and transit by 26%.
The share of the Baltic basin in the total cargo traffic via all the Russian sea ports amounted to 29.6% in March 2020.
More than half of the total was oil and products, with oil products accounting for 29.2% of the overall throughput, and crude oil for 27.5%. Coal and coke had the third largest share in the aggregate throughput amounting to 14.7%.
It should be noted that the highest growth was in ferry cargo segment (+38%), piece cargo (+27%) and liquid chemicals (+18.8%).
The commodities that decreased the most were other general cargo (-56.1%), grain (-38.3%) and liquefied gas (-34.9%).
Ust-Luga accounted for 41.1% of the aggregate cargo throughput via the Russian Baltic basin sea ports in March. Primorsk handled 25%, and the Big Port of St. Petersburg 23% of the total.
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