The total cargo throughput of the Baltic basin sea ports in November 2021 grew by 13.4% year-on-year. Import increased by 6.3%, export by 14.8% and cabotage by 31.8%. Transit, on the contrary, declined by 28.5%.
According to SeaNews PORTSTAT analytic online service, the share of the Baltic basin in the total cargo traffic via all the Russian sea ports amounted to 32.7% in November 2021.
Almost half of the total was oil and products, with accounting oil products for 28.6% of the overall throughput, and crude oil for 25.3%. Coal and coke amounting to 16%.
It should be noted that the highest growth was in ore (up 7-fold), crude oil (up 5.2-fold) and grain (up 2.3-fold) segments.
The commodities that decreased the most were metal scrap (-39.6%), other bulk (suction) (-36.7%) and other bulk (grab) (-27.6%).
Ust-Luga accounted for 43.7% of the aggregate cargo throughput via the Russian Baltic basin sea ports in November 2021, Primorsk handled 22.5%, and the Big Port of St. Petersburg 22.4% of the total.
