In the first nine months of 2024, Russian ports handled 667.4 million tons of goods, with a decrease of -3.5% on the same period last year. The association of ports commercial maritime authorities has announced that the traffic of dry goods amounted to 332.4 million tonnes (-4.0%) and that of liquid bulk at 335.0 million tons (-2,9%). The total figure for goods exported through the port calls was 526.5 million tons (-3.2%), that of imported goods by 31.5 million tons (+8.1%), while transit traffic stood at 50.0 million tonnes (+1.0%) and cabotage was 59.3 million tonnes of tons (-13.6%). In addition, the only Russian ports in the basin Arctic Islands, they handled 69.4 million tons of goods (-5.7%), those of the Baltic basin 206.5 million tons (+1.0%), the ports of the Sea of Azov-Black Sea 209.4 million tons (-7.5%), the ports of the Caspian Sea 6.2 million tons (+9.3%) and the ports of the Far East 175.9 million tons (-2.3%).

Based on the data released by the association, only in the third quarter of 2024, Russian ports handled a total of 218.8 million tons of goods, with a decrease of -1% on the same period of last year, of which 112.5 million tonnes of dry goods (-6%) and 106.3 million tonnes of tons of liquid bulk (+4%). The total traffic in amounted to 171.8 million tonnes (0%), import to 10.8 million tons (+17%), transit traffic at 15.7 million tons (-4%) and that of cabotage to 20.5 million tons (-18%). In the period July-September of this year, the ports of the Arctic basin alone handled 22.2 million tons of cargo (-8%), those of the Baltic basin 66.2 million tons (+13%), the ports of the basin of the Sea of Azov-Black Sea 75.4 million tons (+75.4%), ports of the Caspian Sea 1.8 million tons (-14%) and the ports of the Far East 59.0 million tons (-5%).