OREANDA-NEWS. May 05, 2010. Freight traffic through the ports of Azov-Don Basin in January-April this year rose by 28.3% from the same period 2009 to 4,148,000 tons.

The volume of coal volumes in the reporting period reached 533.5 thousand tons, or almost a twofold rise from Jan-Apr,2009 sulfur shipments (transits from Busan and exports from the port of Ust-Donetsk) rose to 301.100 tons, more than a twofold surge, exports of oil products from Rostov and Azov and outbound scrap metal was up as much as 2,3 times (up to 114,300 tons). At the same time, the regional ports have seen a 13.7-percent drop in the transit of oil cargoes, to 275.600 tons, imports of cement dipped two times as much, to 65,760 tons.

The ADB statistic data show that agriproduct exports remained almost unchanged (just a slight 0.7% gain, at 1.88 million tons).

The Azov-Don State Basin Department of Waterways is responsible for safe traffics via Don River from Tsimlyansk Reservoir to the Azov Sea (save, the Constantine and Nikolaev waterworks facility), and the Azov-Don canal in the north-eastern part of Taganrog Bay. In addition, ADSB Department is responsible for shipping in the tributaries of the Don - the rivers Seversky Donets and Manich. The total waterways length in responsibility of ADSB is 800 km. In 2009 freight volumes through the ports of Azov-Don Basin gained 9% to 20.781 million tons.