The rapid growth of cargo traffic in Russian ports developed in the spring and faded with the onset of the summer and fell to +2.1% last month when they are 73.5 million tons of cargo were handled compared to 72.0 million as of July 2022. The increase was mitigated by the Negative balance of exports, which account for 77% of the total volume of goods to foreign countries which, after a four-month period of rise, decreased by -1,0% falling to 56,6 million Tons. On the other hand, both imported goods and they have totaled 3,0 million tons (+7.1%), both the goods in transit attested to 5,4 million tons (+22.7%) that the National volumes handled by cabotage services results pairs to 8,5 million tons (+13.3%).

The overall reduction of goods has been generated mainly from the -5.2% decline in liquid bulk fell to 34,3 million tonnes, of which 21,2 million tonnes of crude oil (- 0.5%), 9,9 million tons of products refined petroleum (- 16.1%), 2,3 million tons of gas liquefied natural (-8.0%) and 0.5 million tons of products food (+66.7%). Dry goods rose globally by +9.5% to 39,2 million tons, including 18,4 million tons of coal (- 5.6%), 6,3 million tons of cereals (+90.9%), 4,0 million tons of containerized cargos (+29.0%), 3.2 million tons of mineral fertilizers (+68.4%), 1.8 million tons of ferrous metals (- 14.3%), 0.9 million tons of minerals (- 35.7%) and 0,7 million tons of rolling stock.

If the cargoes handled from Russian ports on the Black Sea-Sea d'Azov, which represent 32% of the total, increased by +3.5% to 23,7 million tons, those enlivened by the airports ports on the Baltic Sea, accounting for 26% of the total, fell by -3.4% to 19.2 million tons. Volumes also grow enlivened from the ports of the Arctic Basin with 8,2 million tons (+1.2%), those passed through the ports of the Extreme East with 21,7 million tons (+7.4%) and those treated by the Caspian Sea ports with 0.7 million tons (+40.0%).

In the first seven months of 2023, total traffic is State of 526,8 million tons, with a rise of +9,3% compared to the same period last year, of which 413.0 million of tons of goods in export (+7.8%), 22,8 million tons in import (+11.1%), 38,9 million tons of goods in transit (+7.1%) and 52,1 million tons of traffic national cabotage (+24.3%).

In the period January-July of this year the total figure of dry goods has been of 263,9 million tons (+16.8%), of which 125,9 million tons of coal (+7.8%), 28,9 million of tons of cargos in container (+6.3%), 39,7 million tons of cereals (+113.4%), 13,0 million tons of ferrous metals (- 16.9%), 19,8 million tons of mineral fertilizers (+57.1%), 5,8 million tons of minerals (- 29.2%) and 4.5 million tons of rolling stock (+24.9%).

In the liquid bulk sector, the total was 262,9 million tons (+2.6%), including 161,5 million tons of crude oil (+6.4%), 75,5 million tons of refined petroleum products (- 5.7%), 20,2 million tons liquefied natural gas (- 4.4%) and 3.4 million tonnes of food products (+38.6%).

The traffic enlivened from the ports of the Black Sea-Sea basin d'Azov has been of 174,9 million tons (+18.4%), that totaled by the ports of call of the Baltic basin was 149,0 million tons (+3.8%), the volumes of the goods enlivened from the ports of the Far Eastern basin amounted 140,9 million tons (+7.4%) and to follow those of the ports of the Arctic basin with 57,7 million tons (+2.2%) and basin of the Caspian with 4,3 million tons (+40.3%).