The Association of Russian Commercial Ports has announced that in the First nine months of 2025, national ports of call handled a traffic of 653.4 million tons of goods, with a decrease of -2.3% on the same period last year. The reduction in volumes was generated by the decline in activity recorded in the first half of the year, while in the third half of the year quarter of 2025, with a total of over 228 million of tons, marked an increase of about +4% on the corresponding period of 2024.

The quarterly growth was produced by both the increase in of the volumes of dry goods and liquid goods. The first are amounted to 118 million tonnes (+5%), of which 55 million tonnes tons of coal (+15%), 13 million tons of goods in containers (-2%), 16 million tons of cereals (-21%), 12 million tonnes of mineral fertilisers (+8%), five tonnes of million tonnes of ferrous metals (+23%), five million tonnes of tons of minerals (+37%) and two million tons of rolling stock (0%). Liquid bulk cargo rose +4% to 110 million tonnes, of which 71 million tonnes of crude oil (+11%), 30 million tons of petroleum products (-8%), seven million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (-8%) and over one million tons of food product (0%).

In the third quarter of this year, export traffic was amounted to 178 million tons (+4%), that of imports 10 million tons (-7%), transit traffic at 20 million of tonnes (+26%) and cabotage traffic to 21 million tonnes tons (+1%).

The largest quarterly traffic volume was from the Russian ports of the Black Sea basin-Sea of Azov with 70 million tonnes (-8%), followed by port traffic in the Baltic Sea with 68 million tons (+3%), from ports of the Far East with 67 million tons (+13%), from ports of the Arctic basin with 21 million tons (-5%) and from ports with less than three million tons (+44%).