Last month Russian ports handled about 78.5 million tons, volume representing an increment of +10% compared to May 2022 and is also higher than 71.7 million of tons handled in May 2021 when the conflict is still with Ukraine it had not yet exploded. In May 2023 traffic of export is piled to 61,7 million tons (+9% on May 2022), the import one at 3.4 million tons (+21%), transit traffic to 5,4 million tons (- 9%) and that of cabotage to 8,0 million tons (+31%).

Last month in the dry goods sector were enlivened 39,8 million tons (+17%), of which 18,9 million of tons of coal (+2%), 5,8 million tons of cereals (+142%), 4,4 million tons of container cargos (+37%), 3,0 million tons of mineral fertilizers (+50%) and 2.0 million tons of ferrous metals (-9%). In the sector of Liquid bulk total was 38.7 million tons (+3%), including 24,9 million tons of oil crude oil (+5%), 10,1 million tons of petroleum products (-2%) and 3.0 million tons of liquefied natural gas (-3%).

Last May, Russian ports in the Arctic basin enlivened 21,9 million tons of goods (+2%), those of the Black Sea basin/Sea of Azov 26,5 million tons (+21%), the Far Eastern ports 21,3 million tons (+14%), those of the arctic basin 8,1 million tons (- 8%) and the ports of the Sea Caspian 0,7 million tons (+40%).

In the first five months of 2023 the total traffic was by 379.0 million tonnes, representing an increase in the +11.2% on the same period last year and is higher even to the 340.5 million tons handled in the first five months of 2021 before the war that broke out on February 24 2022. Export cargoes stood at 298.4 million tons (+10.8%), those in import to 16,4 million tons (+8.5%), the cargos in transit to 28,2 million tons (+1.6%) and cargos of cabotage traffic to 36.0 million tons (+26.4%). Total dry goods they have totaled 186,2 million tons (+20.1%) and those liquid 192,8 million tons (+3.8%).