Coal dominated the exports, accounting for 52.4% of the total, followed by oil cargo (22%), ferrous metals (6.9%), fertilizers (6.1%) and grain (2.3%).

Coal loading volumes shipped to ports in January - July 2021 increased by 15.5% to over 107.4 million t. Delivered to the ports of Russia’s Far East were 55.8 million t of solid fuel, an increase of 4.5%, 16.8 million t to the ports in the South, up by a factor of 1.8, and approximately 35 million t to the ports of the North-West, a rise of 15.5%.