OREANDA-NEWS. June 03, 2010. Cargo turnover at the ports of Azov-Don Basin increased in January-May by 35% from the same period a year earlier, to 7,111.175 tons, the ADB Administration said.

The overall growth in freight traffic volume was reached thanks to a 2.27 times jump in coal exports, to 806.203 tons, 778.154 tons of transit and exported sulfur, a 2.1 times rise, and 446,000 tons more of exported wheat (in agri-products volume) to the level of last year. Overall, due to decline in volume of corn, meal, barley, peas, etc. the agri-products exports remains at the level of 2009 – 2,539.419 tons.
The regional ports showed in the reporting period a 55-percent surge in shipments of scrap metal.

Petroleum products transits from the Volga and Caspian Sea ports in southern direction were below 2009’s level by 3.3%. However, the regional ports’ total volume of imports and exports reached, thanks primarily to a 1.45 times growth (+510,000 tons) via the terminal port of Rostov-on-Don and Azov, 1,639,000 tons.

The Azov-Don State Basin Department of Waterways and Shipping is responsible for safe traffics via Don River from Tsimlyansk Reservoir to the Azov Sea (save, the Constantine and Nikolaev waterworks facility), and the Azov-Don canal in the north-eastern part of Taganrog Bay. In addition, ADSB Department is responsible for shipping in the tributaries of the Don - the rivers Seversky Donets and Manich. The total waterways length in responsibility of ADSB is 800 km. In 2009 freight volumes through the ports of Azov-Don Basin gained 9% to 20.781 million tons.