According to SeaNews PORTSTAT analytic online service, the ore throughput of all the Russian sea ports during January-May 2021 amounted to 4.1 mn tons (-17.7%). Ore accounted for 1.2% of the total throughput.
Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port is the leader in terms of ore throughput with 1.6 mn tons, down 22.6% year-on-year.
Murmansk Bulk Terminal saw its ore traffic declined by 28.3% down to 738 thousand tons.
Murmansk Commercial Sea Port handled 478.5 mn tons, down 21.7% year-on-year.
Ore throughput via Vanino Commercial Sea Port decreased by 12.4% down to 396.9 thousand tons.
Nakhodka MTP handled 335.7 thousand tons (up 2.5-fold).
It should be noted that the highest ore throughput growth was via Rostovsky Port, its ore traffic surged 12.8-fold. Nakhodka Commercial Sea Port was up 2.5-fold, and Directorate for Construction under the Presidential Administrative Department in the Far Eastern Federal District in Vladivostok up 13.7%.
The largest decrease in ore traffic was in Taganrog Commercial Sea Port (-66.5%), Forest-Cargo in Olga (-29.4%) and Murmansk Bulk Terminal (-28.3%).