According to SeaNews PORTSTAT analytic online service, the total cargo throughput of all the Russian sea ports during January 2021 amounted to 63.5 mn tons (-7.4%). Five terminals handled 16.7 mn tons or 26.3% of this volume.
Primorsk Commercial Port is the leader in January 2021 in terms of cargo throughput. Its cargo traffic decreased by 26.3% down to 4.4 mn tons.
CPC-R in Novorossiysk rates the second in January 2021. Cargo traffic via the terminal amounted to 4.1 mn tons, down 26.6% year-on-year.
Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port handled 3.4 mn tons, down 36.3% year-on-year.
Cargo throughput via Transneft Kozmino Port in Vostochny decreased by 3.5% down to 2.6 mn tons.
Ust-Luga Oil handled 2.1 mn tons. Its cargo traffic was up 2.3% year-on-year.
It should be noted that the stevedores, which demonstrated the highest growth did not get into the Top-5. Kerch Commercial Port, Crimean Sea Ports branch saw its cargo traffic surge 9.7-fold, Vladivostok Sea Terminal was up 9.2-fold and Priazovye in Taganrog up 6.5-fold.
The largest decrease in cargo traffic was in Anroskrym in port Kavkaz (-98.8%), and Eastern Petrochemical Terminal in Vostochny (-92.1%) and Baltiysky Port (-87.4%).