In the first six months of 2026, Russian ports handled a traffic of 451.5 million tons of goods, with a An increase of +5.8% over the first half of last year. The Association of Russian Seaports has announced that dry goods alone marked an increase of +9.1% rising to 224.3 million tonnes, while liquid goods are grew by +2.8% having totaled 227.1 million tons.

The flow of goods for export alone amounted to 354.7 million tonnes (+5.7%) and that of goods in imports at 21.3 million tons (+1.7%). Goods in amounted to 34.2 million tonnes (-6.1%) and the cabotage traffic was 41.3 million tons (+22,3%).

With regard to the various port regions, in the first half of the year This year, Arctic ports handled 51.2 million tonnes of cargo (+15.0%), those from the Baltic basin 130.3 million tons (-4.2%), the ports of the Sea 132.0 million tonnes (+6.3%), the ports of the Caspian 5.3 million tons (+59.7%) and Russian ports of the Far East 132.7 million tons (+11.8%).

Based on the data provided by the association, in the second quarter of 2026, Russian ports handled a total of a record traffic of 241.4 million tons, with an increase of +11.2%) over the same period of 2025, of which 121.8 million tons of dry goods (+14.9%) and 119.5 million tons of liquid bulk (+7.7%).