Some 181k trucks (-8% year-on-year), 63.7k trailers (-4% yoy), and nearly 10k railcars (on par with the H1 2019 result) went through Rostock seaport's quays, a decrease of 6.1% yoy.
Despite the overall drop, certain cargo groups noted significant increases, including grains (+99.8% year-on-year to 1.01mt) and liquid bulk (+17.2% yoy to 2.56mt, out of which the turnover of LNG went up by 34.3% yoy to 1.61mt).
Because of the coronavirus pandemic the Estonian ferry line carried considerably fewer passengers, a decrease of 56.6% year-on-year to 1.95m, as well as pax cars, down by 43% yoy to 292,771.
With 52.5k TEUs carried in May alone, twice as much as in the corresponding month last year, the JV between Belarusian, Kazakh, and Russian railways marked its new monthly record.
A total of 5.53mt (-8.1% year-on-year) of unitized cargo was taken care of, followed by 656.8kt (-7.3% yoy) of dry bulk and 318.3kt of break-bulk (-18% yoy).
With 53.81mt (-1.0% year-on-year) the Port of Ust-Luga topped the chart, followed by St. Petersburg (-0.7% yoy to 29.87m) and Primorsk (-1.1% yoy to 29.51mt).