Last year, Russian ports handled 884.5 million tons of goods, with a decrease of -0.4% on 2024. The association of Russian maritime commercial ports announced that in 2025 the dry goods traffic alone amounted to 441.7 million of tonnes (-0.2%), of which 202.9 million tonnes of coal (+7.8%), 52.2 million tonnes of cereals (-31.1%), 54.0 million tonnes million tons of containerized cargo (-2.7%), 45.9 million tonnes of mineral fertilisers (+8.0%), 23.0 million tonnes of ferrous metals (+20.8%), 15.9 million tonnes of tonnes of minerals (+29.1%) and 8.3 million tonnes of rolling stock (+3.0%). Liquid bulk traffic has amounted to 442.8 million tonnes (-0.5%), including 274.9 million tonnes million tonnes of crude oil (+2.8%), 121.1 million tonnes of crude oil tons of refined petroleum products (-7.7%), 37.2 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (+2.5%) and 5.7 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas. tons of food products (-11.4%).

In 2025, goods exported through Russian ports are amounted to 696.6 million tonnes (-0.6%), those imported at 41.2 million tonnes (-3.9%), goods in transit were equal to 71.5 million tonnes (+10.0%) and the traffic of cabotage to 75.2 million tonnes (-5.0%).

Last year, the ports of the Arctic basin alone handled a total of 87.1 million tons (-6.3%), those of the Baltic basin 271.3 million tons (-0.6%), ports of the Azov-Black Sea basin 265.4 million tons (-3.9%), the ports of the Caspian basin 8.6 million tons (-5.4%) and the ports of the Far East basin 252.1 million tons (+6.6%).

The slight reduction in total freight traffic was generated in the first half of 2025, while in the second half of 2025 Flow-driven growth was recorded in the first half of the year of exports as well as the increase in the volumes handled by the Russian ports in the Far East.

In the fourth quarter of 2025 alone, global traffic 231.1 million tons, with an increase of about +6% on the last quarter of the previous year. In the Goods segment 119.1 million tons (+10%) were handled, of of which 51.2 million tonnes of coal (+17%), 20.1 million tonnes of coal tonnes of cereals (+12%), 13.9 million tonnes of goods in containers (-5%), 10.9 million tons of fertilizers minerals (+6%), 5.6 million tons of ferrous metals (+14%), 4.4 million tonnes of minerals (+13%) and 2.2 million tonnes of tons of rolling stock (+10%). Liquid bulk cargo totaled 112.0 million tonnes (+2%), including 70.0 million tonnes tonnes of crude oil (+8%), 28.2 million tonnes of refined petroleum products (-12%) and 11.2 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (+10%).

In the October-December quarter of 2025, traffic from export was 184.3 million tons (+6%), import of 10.3 million tons (-10%), transit traffic of 15.4 million tonnes (+3%) and the cabotage traffic of 21.1 million tons (+9%). The ports Russians in the Arctic basin have moved a total of 22.0 million tons of goods (-6%), those of the Sea basin Baltic Sea 67.4 million tons (+6%), the ports of the Sea of Azov-Mar Black 72.2 million tons (+9%), the ports of the Sea basin Caspian 2.9 million tons (+53%) and the ports of the Far Orient 66.6 million tons (+10%).