In 2024, Russian ports handled 886.3 million tons of goods, with a decrease of -2.3% on the year previous. The Association of Russian Seaports has announced that last year the only traffic of dry goods was amounted to 441.1 million tonnes (-1.9%), of which 188.1 million tonnes million tonnes of coal (-9.8%), 74.8 million tonnes of cereals (+6.0%), 55.5 million tonnes of goods containerized (+10.8%), 42.5 million tons of mineral fertilizers (+15.7%), 19.0 million tonnes of ferrous metals (-10.8%), 12.3 million tonnes of minerals (+26.3%) and 8.0 million tonnes of rolling stock (-0.5%). In the liquid bulk sector, the total was 445.2 million tonnes (-2.6%), including 267.5 million tonnes of crude oil (-1.7%), 131.1 million tonnes of oil (-7.1%), 36.3 million tons of liquefied gas (+5.9%) and 6.4 million tonnes of food products (+14,0%).

The total figure for export goods handled is 699.7 million tonnes (-1.9%), that of goods in imports of 42.9 million tons (+11.0%). The traffic of amounted to 64.9 million tonnes (-0.5%) and that of cabotage to 78.7 million tons (-12.1%).

Last year, traffic in the Russian ports of call of the Arctic region stood at 92.9 million tonnes (-5.2%), that in Baltic Sea ports to 273.0 million of tons (+0.6%), traffic in the ports of the Sea basin of Azov-Black Sea totaled 275.7 million tons (-5.4%), that in the ports of the Caspian Sea 8.1 million tons (+4.9%) and traffic in the ports of the Russian Far East was equal to 236.5 million tons (-2.3%).