Last month, cargo traffic in Russian ports decreased by approximately -2% to €74.0 million tonnes compared to 75.3 million tonnes in October 2022. The reduction was driven by a -5% drop in goods exports, which amounted to 57.5 million tonnes. The Import cargo traffic grew by +10% at 3.3 million tonnes. Goods in transit have totalled 5.3 million tonnes (+36%) and the cabotage was 7.9 million tonnes (+5%).

In the dry goods sector, the overall figure is 37.6 million tonnes (-5%), of which 16.0 million tonnes tonnes of coal (-23%), 6.9 million tonnes of cereals (+21%), 4.0 million tonnes of containerised goods (+8%), 3.6% million tonnes of mineral fertilisers (+44%), 1.8 million tonnes tonnes of ferrous metals (-8%) and 0.8 million tonnes of minerals (-11%). In the liquid bulk segment, handled a total of 36.4 million tonnes (+2%), including 24.0 million tonnes of crude oil (+16%), 8.7 million tonnes of refined petroleum products (-24%), 3.0 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (0%) and 0.4 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas tonnes of food products (0%).

The largest volume of overall traffic was handled from Russian ports in the Sea of Azov/Black Sea region with 24.8 million tons (+5%) followed by the ports of the Sea Baltic with 20.2 million tonnes (-7%), from those of the Far Oriente with 19.9 million tons (-3%), from the ports of the Basin Arctic with 8.3 million tons (-8%) and from Russian ports in the Mediterranean Sea. Caspian with 0.8 million tons (+60%).

In the first ten months of 2023, total traffic in ports 749.3 million tonnes, with a increase of +7.8% over the same period last year, of which 585.4 million tonnes of export cargoes (+5.9%), 32.3 million tonnes of imports (+8.5%), 55.1 million tonnes of tonnes of cargo in transit (+13.5%) and 76.5 million tonnes of tonnes of cabotage traffic (+19.9%). Dry goods are totalled 382.0 million tonnes (+14.7%), including mainly coal (177.6 million tonnes, +3.8%) and cereals (61.7 million tonnes, +80.9%), and liquid bulk to 367.3 million tonnes (+1.5%), of which 228.3 million tonnes tonnes of crude oil (+7.0%), 103.2 million tonnes petroleum products (-9.6%), 28.0 million tonnes of gas liquefied (-4.1%) and 4.7 million tonnes of products food (+30.0%).