The volume of transshipment of dry cargo amounted to 25.0 mln tons (+14.9 percent), including: coal – 10.2 million tonnes (+19.7 percent), container cargo – 3.5 million tons (+16.4 per cent), grain – 2.5 mln tons (+33,6%), ferrous metals – 2.3 million tons (+8,6%), mineral fertilizers – 1.4 million tons (up 6.8%), timber cargoes – 0.4 million tons (+1,1%), ro-ro cargoes – 0.3 mln tonnes (up 1.8 times) and scrap – 0.3 mln tons (+23.1 per cent).

The volume of transshipment of liquid cargoes increased to 34.7 MT (+11,2%), including crude oil, up to 19.9 million tonnes (+9.1 percent), oil products – up to 13.1 million tons (+14.0 per cent) and liquefied natural gas to 1.3 million tons (+7,5%).

Export cargo is overloaded 47,4 million tons (+10.2 per cent), import cargoes – 2.4 million tons (+10.6 percent), transit – 4.3 million tons (+3,2%), cabotage – 5.5 million tons (growth in 1.6 times).

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