In the first quarter of this year, Russian ports handled 210.1 million tons of goods, with a slight increase of +0.6% over the first three months of 2025. The association of commercial ports has announced that only cargoes in amounted to 166.7 million tons (+1.1%), those imported to 9.9 million tons (-1.8%), goods in transit at 14.5 million tonnes (-19.8%) and traffic of cabotage was 19.0 million tons (+20.7%).

The total volume of dry goods was 102.5 million tonnes (+3.5%), of which 45.4 million tonnes tons of coal (+3.0%), 13.1 million tons of cereals (+39.4%), 13.4 million tons of containerized goods (-2.0%), 11.6 million tonnes of mineral fertilisers (-3.8%), 5.6 million tonnes of ferrous metals (-4.8%), 3.4 million tonnes million tonnes of minerals (+17.4%) and 2.1 million tonnes of minerals tons of rolling stock (+13.8%). The total liquid bulk is 107.6 million tonnes (-2.0%), including 64.9 million tonnes tonnes of crude oil (-0.2%), 29.7 million tonnes of refined petroleum products (-8.6%), 10.8 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (+11.7%) and 1.4 million tonnes of tons of food products (-4.1%).

In the first three months by 2026 the global traffic of goods handled by ports alone of the Arctic basin amounted to 24.2 million tons (+12.2%), that handled by the ports of the Baltic basin to 64.3 million tonnes (-5.6%), the traffic totalled by the ports of call in the Sea of Azov and Black Sea basins is amounted to 59.3 million tonnes (-5.8%), traffic from the ports of the Caspian Sea basin was equal to 2.1 million tons (+24.1%) and that handled in ports of the Far East basin amounted to 60.2 million of tons (+10.6%).