The Russian Baltic seaport's leading trade, liquid bulk, advanced by 3.9% year-on-year to 56.07mt.

With 55.96mt, dry bulk came second, increasing by 21.5% on the 2020 result.

General cargo handling rose, too, by 13.2% yoy to 2.9mt.

However, Ust-Luga's container traffic decreased - by as much as 41.1% yoy to 29,298 TEUs.

On the other hand, the port's wheeled (ro-ro) cargo traffic went up - by 9.3% yoy to 1.14mt. Counting 15t per one truck/trailer/railcar, some 76k ro-ro cargo units were taken care of.