OREANDA-NEWS. August 26, 2008. In January-July 2008, throughput of Russian seaports amounted to 263.3 mln t (+2.3%, or +5.9 mln t, year-on-year), press center of the Association of Sea Commercial Ports informs. In the reported period Russia seaports handled 111.6 mln t of dry cargo (+6.3%) and 151.7 mln t  of liquid bulk cargo (-736,000 tonnes, year-on-year).

In the reported period, operators of sea terminals of the North-West Basin handled over 124 mln t  of cargo (+4.0%), including 50.2 mln t of dry cargo (+8.0%) and 73.9 mln t  of liquid bulk cargo (+1.4%). Throughput of the port of St. Petersburg grew by 4.4% (35.5 mln t ), Primorsk – by 1.5% to 43,5 mln t, Murmansk – by 2.7% to 14.9 mln t. Throughput of Vyborg, Vysotsk, Ust-Luga totaled 14.3 mln t   (+7.2%, year-on-year, due mainly to RPK-Vysotsk LUKOIL-II ). However transshipment of dry cargo fell by 4.8%, including a 3.2-pct decrease at the terminals -of Rosterminalugol and a 28.2-pct decrease at Port Vysotsk LLC.

Throughput of the South Basin ports fell by 2.7% to 91.2 mln t. Transshipment of dry cargo fell by 0.9%, year-on-year, to 27.7 mln t, liquid bulk cargo -  by 2.1% to 63.5 mln t. The decrease was registered at all major terminals of the region: Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port OJSC – by 0.7% to 41.2 mln t, Commercial Seaport of Tuapse OJSC -  by 1.7% to 11.3 mln t, Yeisk port –  by 14.3% to 2.0 mln t. At the same time, throughput of Taman ports grew by 27.5% to 5.6 mln t including 3.7 mln t of dry cargo (up 1.9 times). Throughput of Makhachkala increased by 9.0%, year-on-year, to 4.0 mln t including 1.2 mln t of dry cargo (9.9%, year-on-year) and 2.8 mln t of liquid bulk cargo (+8.5%).

The ports of the far East handled 48 mln t (+6.2%) including 33.7 mln t of dry cargo (+10.5%) and 14.3 mln t of liquid bulk cargo (-2.8%). Operators of Nakhodka increased their throughput by 27.9% to 9.9 mln t; those of Vladivostok – by 29.4% to 9.1 mln t. Throughput of Vanino and Sakhalin ports fell by 6.1% (12.5 mln t) and 18.1% (2.3 mln t) respectively. Throughput of Vostochny port has not changed year-on-year.