According to SeaNews PORTSTAT analytic online service, the ferrous metals throughput of all the Russian sea ports during January-April 2021 amounted to 9.95 mn tons (+18%). Ferrous metals accounted for 3.7% of the total throughput.
Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port is the leader in terms of ferrous metals throughput with 2.25 mn tons, down 7.2% year-on-year.
Sea Port of St. Petersburg saw its ferrous metals traffic grow by 21.6% up to 1.2 mn tons.
Tuapse Commercial Sea Port handled 1.2 mn tons, up 64.4% year-on-year.
Ferrous metals throughput via Novorossiysk Shiprepair Yard increased by 35.9% up to 838.6 thousand tons.
Neva-Metal in Big Port of St. Petersburg handled 746.3 thousand tons (-1.5%) .
It should be noted that the highest ferrous metals throughput growth was via Vostochny Port, its ferrous metals traffic surged 8.2-fold. Taganrog Commercial Sea Port was up 7.8-fold, and Pervomayskiy Seaport of Vladivostok up 3.6-fold.
The largest decrease in ferrous metals traffic was in LUKOIL-Nizhnevolzhskneft in Astrakhan (-51.2%), Moby Dik in the Big Port of St. Petersburg (-48.4%) and Gazprom Transservice in Temryuk (-38.9%).