The turnover of liquids dropped by 0.4% year-on-year to a total of 23.4mt, while the remaining 17.1mt (-1.2% yoy) were mainly supplied by the handling of general cargo, with a minor addition of dry bulk.
The Swedish port noted a new all-time high in total freight turnover for the fourth time in a row, along with scoring new records in the number of handled trucks & trailers and pax cars, as well as served passengers.
The company saw the biggest increase across its services taking care of the Asia-Europe trade lane, up by 14.5% year-on-year to a total of 1,302,305 TEUs.
Despite a drop by 28% year-on-year down to 4.12mt in the turnover of liquid bulk, the Latvian port pulled off to increase its total freight handling in 2018.
Both the turnover of general cargo and dry bulk rose, up by 1.8% and 20.3% to 11.20mt and 2.24mt, respectively, on the results from the corresponding period of 2017.
Containerised freight traffic totalled 23.73mt (+13.5% year-on-year) in the reported period, accounting for almost two-thirds of St. Petersburg's overall general cargo turnover (+12.1% yoy to 37.80mt).