Russia's sea ports handled a total of 193.4 million metric tons of cargo in the first five months of the year, an increase of 5.3% compared with January-May 2008, according to the figures released Monday by the national association of sea ports.
Total throughput of liquid cargo increased 12.2% to 118.9 million tons in the same period, while dry cargo throughput fell 4.1% to 74.5 million tons.