Last month, with more than 74 million tons of cargo Russian ports recorded a decrease of -8% of the loads passed on the docks compared to more than 80 million tonnes totalled in April 2023. The reduction is generated by the -8% drop in export goods and the -20% decrease in cabotage traffic, to 58 million and seven million tonnes, respectively. In growth in imported goods with less than four million tonnes (+3%) as well as goods in transit with six million tonnes (+2%). Overall, dry goods are amounted to 38 million tonnes (-7%) and liquid to 36 million tonnes million tonnes (-9%).

The Association of Russian Commercial Ports has announced that in the In the first four months of 2024, global traffic was 288.4 million tonnes, with a decrease of -4.3% on the former three months of last year. Export goods have been 225.9 million tonnes (-4.8%), imports 13.4 million tonnes (+3.1%), goods in transit 23.2 million tonnes tonnes (+2.3%) and cabotage traffic was equal to 25.8 million tonnes (-8.6%).

In the first four months of this year, dry goods were equal to 141.8 million tonnes (-3.4%), of which 59.5 million tonnes tonnes of coal (-15.0%), 25.3 million tonnes of cereals (+11.8%), 18.3 million tonnes of containerised goods (+10.9%), 13.9 million tonnes of mineral fertilisers (+32.3%), 6.7 million tonnes of ferrous metals (-9.0%), 3.0 million tonnes of minerals (-6.7%) and 2.4 million tonnes of tonnes of rolling stock (-3.2%). In the liquid bulk sector The total figure was 146.6 million tonnes (-5.1%), including 92.6 million tonnes of crude oil (0.0%), 37.8 million tonnes of petroleum products (-18.5%), 12.7 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (+2.7%) and 2.2 million tonnes million tonnes of food products (+13.2%).

In the first four months of 2024, only the ports of the Arctic basin handled 31.0 million tonnes of goods (-6.1%), those of the Baltic Sea 85.5 million tons (-2.5%), ports of the Sea of Azov-Black Sea 93.8 million tonnes (-6.9%), the ports of the Caspian basin 3.0 million tonnes (+40.7%) and the Russian ports in the Far East 75.1 million tonnes (-3.2%).