The Russian terminal operator Global Ports Investments has announced that container traffic in national ports, after the increase of +33.1% in the second quarter of this year, in the The following quarter recorded a further growth of +37.2% having amounted to 1.19 million TEUs compared to 869 thousand TEUs in July-September 2022. The figure for the third quarter of 2019 2023 is still lower than the volumes handled before the start of the war between Russia and Ukraine. Before the conflict, In the third quarter of 2021, traffic amounted to 1.32 million TEUs.

In the third quarter of 2023, the recovery was driven the +149.6% increase in traffic in Russian Baltic ports which totalled 322 thousand TEUs and the rise of +68.9% in traffic handled from Russia's southern ports that 228 thousand TEUs. The increase in volumes in Russian ports in the Far East that have handled 602 thousand TEUs (+8.3%), while in the northern ports traffic is fell by -18.4% to 40 thousand TEUs.

In the July-September period of this year, the only traffic handled from Global Ports' terminals in Russian ports is 241 thousand TEUs (+19.3%), while traffic in the two Finnish container terminals operated by Global Ports as part of 50:50 joint venture with CMA Terminals decreased by -18.6% to about 21 thousand TEUs.