In January-September 2020, Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg handled almost 5.2 million tonnes of cargo, 1% more than over 9 months of the previous year. Despite the pandemic period and consequent decrease of industry production, the port of Saint-Petersburg retained its throughput and demonstrated its high strength.
The company increased handling of wood pellets to 498,000 (+53%) and mineral fertilizers in big-bags to 401,000 (+7%), which compensated the decrease of ferrous metal exports to 1.8 million tonnes (-9%), non-ferrous metal — to 658,000 (-33%) and metal scrap — to 634,000 (-1%).
Total turnover of general cargo reached 3.98 million tonnes (-8%) while handling of dry bulk cargo surged by 79% to 867,000 tonnes. From the beginning of the year, the company has handled 23,100 TEUs.
Handling of export cargo totaled 4.5 million tonnes (-8%), import — 694,000 (up 2.6 times, year-on-year). Exports accounted for 87% of SP SPb’ total throughput, imports — for 13%.
– Port terminals are facing a deficit of cargo today. Therefore, we are constantly raising the quality of our services, ensure high competitiveness and flexible approach to customer relations, — said Andrey Zubarev, Managing Director of SP SPb.
