Throughput of Port St. Petersburg climbed by 2% in 5M’2021
Handling of dry loose and liquid bulk cargo continues going down
In January-May 2021, the Port of St. Petersburg handled 25.38 million tonnes of cargo (+2%, year-on-year). According to the port authority, handling of liquid bulk cargo fell by 3% to 4.61 million tonnes, handling of dry bulk cargo rose by 17% to 3.44 million tonnes.
In the reported period, handling of general cargo rose by 5% to 5.34 million tonnes, Ro-Ro cargo – by 42% to 601,300 tonnes, dry loose cargo – down 17% to 119,400 tonnes including 112,700 tonnes of timber (+19%). Handling of cargoes carried by ferries surged 2.7 times to 1.3 million tonnes.
The port’s container throughput fell by 7% to 858,763 TEUs.
In 2020, the port handled 59.88 mln t of cargo, its container throughput was 2.09 mln TEUs.
|
Port |
Type of cargo |
Throughput thou t, 2019 |
Throughput thou t, 2020 |
Throughput thou t, 2021 |
2021 vs 2020 |
|
Port of Saint-Petersburg |
TOTAL: |
25,012.4 |
24,921.6 |
25,381.0 |
102% |
|
DRY BULK CARGO including: |
3,481.3 |
2,950.4 |
3,440.9 |
117% |
|
|
Ore |
287.8 |
374.4 |
334.4 |
89% |
|
|
Coal, coke |
137.5 |
30.6 |
12.7 |
42% |
|
|
Mineral fertilizers |
3,052.0 |
2,478.1 |
3,035.4 |
122% |
|
|
Other |
4.1 |
67.3 |
58.4 |
87% |
|
|
DRY LOOSE CARGO including: |
189.9 |
143.4 |
119.4 |
83% |
|
|
Grain |
163.5 |
90.3 |
56.9 |
63% |
|
|
Other |
26.4 |
53.1 |
62.5 |
118% |
|
|
TIMBER |
153.6 |
94.4 |
112.7 |
119% |
|
|
GENERAL CARGO including: |
5,285.1 |
5,077.6 |
5,349.4 |
105% |
|
|
Ferrous metal |
2,262.6 |
2,360.3 |
2,792.7 |
118% |
|
|
Non-ferrous metal |
643.4 |
452.3 |
388.0 |
86% |
|
|
Metal scrap |
612.2 |
699.4 |
599.9 |
86% |
|
|
Packaged |
643.4 |
658.0 |
577.9 |
88% |
|
|
Reefer |
512.3 |
425.8 |
401.8 |
94% |
|
|
including fish |
125.0 |
83.0 |
95.3 |
115% |
|
|
Other |
611.2 |
481.9 |
589.0 |
122% |
|
|
CONTAINERS |
11,591.7 |
11,479.4 |
11,140.0 |
97% |
|
|
Total teus |
966,595 |
921,796 |
858,763 |
93% |
|
|
including refrigerated containers: |
129,719 |
125,937 |
122,087 |
97% |
|
|
CARGO CARRIED by FERRIES |
15.4 |
0.5 |
1.3 |
up 2.7 times |
|
|
RO-RO |
533.8 |
424.5 |
601.3 |
142% |
|
|
LIQUID BULK CARGO including: |
3,761.6 |
4,751.5 |
4,615.8 |
97% |
|
|
Oil products |
3,761.6 |
4,751.5 |
4,615.8 |
97% |
