In the first half of this year, Russian ports handled 448.6 million tons of goods, with a decrease of -3.1% on the first half of 2023, of which 354.7 million tonnes of export cargo (-3.0%), 20.7 million tonnes in import (+4.7%), 34.3 million tonnes of goods in transit (+2.7%) and 38.8 million tonnes of transit traffic cabotage (-11.8%). Overall, the ports of the Sea basin Baltic handled 140.3 million tons (+1.3%), those of the Azov-Black Sea basin 134.0 million tonnes (-8.0%), ports in the Far East 116.9 million tons (-2.1%), ports in the Arctic basin 47.2 million tons (-4.7%) and the ports of the Caspian Sea 4.4 million of tons (+23.4%).

The total volume of dry goods handled in the top six months of 2024 was 219.9 million tons (-2.7%), of which 95.4 million tonnes of coal (-12.0%), 37.1 million tonnes of tonnes of cereals (+10.1%), 27.7 million tonnes of cereals goods (+10.9%), 21.3 million tonnes of mineral fertilizers (+28.1%), 9.7 million tons of ferrous metals (-13.7%), 4.9 million tonnes of minerals (-0.8%) and 3.9 million tons of rolling stock (-0.7%). The volume global liquid bulk cargo stood at 228.7 million tonnes (-3.5%), including 138.2 million tonnes of crude oil (-1.5%), 66.7 million tons of products oil (-9.6%), 18.5 million tons of natural gas liquefied (+3.2%) and 3.3 million tons of products food (+12.1%).