Last month, the downward trend was accentuated of cargo traffic in Russia's ports having been around 75 million tonnes of cargo handled globally, with a decrease of -12% on May 2024 determined by the -16% reduction in the flow of exports, reaching 58 million tonnes, and of cabotage traffic, which is amounted to over six million tons (-8%). Goods in exports increased by +8%, rising to four million tons and the goods in transit with six million tons (+15%). The volume total of dry goods amounted to 37 million tons (-6%) and that of liquid bulk to 38 million tons (-17%).

In May 2025, the volumes of traffic movements in all the main port regions of the Russia except those passed through ports of the Far East, which amounted to 22 million tons (+6%).

The Association of Russian Commercial Ports has announced that in the first five months of 2025 total freight traffic is 355.3 million tons, a decrease of -4.9% on the corresponding period of last year. The only goods in exports amounted to 279.8 million tonnes (-5.3%), those imported to 17.6 million tons (+3.9%), goods in transit at 30.2 million tons (+6.0%) and traffic totalled 27.7 million tonnes (-15.4%).

In the dry goods sector, 170.6 million tonnes (-6.0%), of which 78.3 million tonnes of coal (+1.5%), 23.1 million tons of containerized goods (-0.3%), 19.8 million tonnes of mineral fertilisers (+12.1%), 14.6 million tonnes of cereals (-54.2%), 10.3 million tonnes million tonnes of ferrous metals (+24.5%), 5.4 million tonnes of tons of minerals (+41.3%) and 3.4 million tons of rolling stock (+6.5%). Liquid goods stood at 184.7 million of tonnes (-3.9%), of which 110.8 million tonnes of crude oil (-3.9%), 53.3 million tons of products refined petroleum products (-5.1%), 16.2 million tonnes of gas liquefied (+0.9%) and 2.5 million tons of products food (-12.0%).

In the first five months of this year, the volume of goods handled by ports in the Arctic basin is 36.4 million tons (-7.5%), the amount handled from the ports of the Baltic basin to 113.6 million tons (-3.0%), traffic passed through the ports of the Sea of Azov-Mar basin Black was 104.5 million tons (-10.6%), the through the ports of the Caspian Basin of 2.7 million tons (-35.4%) and the traffic handled by the ports of the basin of the Far East was 98.0 million tonnes (+2,0%).