Baltic Basin Ports’ Throughput in September 2020 Down 13.5%

Baltic Basin Ports’ Throughput in September 2020 Down 13.5%

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

    According to SeaNews PORTSTAT analytic online service, the total cargo throughput of the Baltic basin sea ports in September 2020 declined by 13.5% year-on-year. Export was down 14.2%, import down 0.6%, cabotage down by 5.2%, and transit dropped by 49.8%.

    The share of the Baltic basin in the total cargo traffic via all the Russian sea ports amounted to 27.1% in September 2020.

    Almost half of the total was oil and products, with oil products accounting for 30.4% of the overall throughput, and crude oil for 19.5%. Coal and coke amounted to 21.3%.

    It should be noted that the highest growth was in the chemicals segment (up 2.1-fold), foodstuffs (+45.7%) and ore (+41.6%).

    The commodities that decreased the most were liquefied gas (-56.2%), non-ferrous metals (-50.9%) and crude oil (-42.3%).

    Ust-Luga accounted for 41.2% of the aggregate cargo throughput via the Russian Baltic basin sea ports in September. The Big Port of St. Petersburg handled 26%, and Primorsk 19.6% of the total.


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