In the first quarter of 2024, freight traffic in ports Russian exports decreased by -3.3% compared to the same period last year as it amounted to 214.3 million tonnes. The Association of Russian Commercial Ports has announced that in the in the first three months of 2024, export goods transited through the Russian port docks were 167.9 million tons (-3.4%), imported goods 9.8 million tonnes (+3.2%), goods in transit 17.5 million tonnes (+1.6%) and goods 19.1 million tonnes (-6.9%).

In particular, Russian ports in the Arctic basin have handled a total of 23.5 million tons of cargo (-4.3%), Baltic ports 63.7 million tonnes (-1.6%), of the Sea of Azov-Black Sea 70.6 million tonnes (-4.2%), ports of the Caspian Sea 2.2 million tons (+40.4%) and Russian ports of the Far East 54.3 million tonnes (-4.9%).

The total of dry goods was 103.5 million tonnes (-2.5%), of which 43.4 million tonnes of coal (-15.2%), 18.0 million tonnes of cereals (+13.1%), 13.6 million tonnes of containerised goods (+11.9%), 10.2 million tonnes of mineral fertilisers (+37.9%), 4.9 million tonnes of tonnes of ferrous metals (-5.3%), 2.2 million tonnes of minerals (-4.4%) and 1.8 million tonnes of rolling stock (-1.3%).

In the liquid bulk sector, traffic has increased 110.8 million tonnes (-4.1%), including 69.0 million tonnes of crude oil (+0.7%), 29.7 million tonnes tonnes of petroleum products (-16.5%), 9.4 million tonnes of petroleum products. tonnes of liquefied natural gas (+4.6%) and 1.7 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas. tonnes of foodstuffs (-1.3%).

In the first quarter of this year, passenger traffic was drastically dropped as Russian ports were called by 6,413 passenger ships for a traffic of almost 242 thousand passengers compared to 13,132 passenger ships for a total of 942,000 passengers in the same period in 2023. The -74% drop in passengers is This was caused by the significant reduction in the number of passengers departing from ports of Crimea, with 218,000 passengers arriving and departing from the port of Sevastopol (-76%) and zero traffic in the port of Yalta compared to almost 17 thousand passengers in the first three months of 2023. The passenger traffic in the Black Sea port of Sochi is instead increased by +185% as less than 14 thousand people passed through and traffic in the port of Vladivostock has also grown in Far East with over 6 thousand passengers transited compared to a Traffic almost at a standstill in the first quarter of last year year.