Jefferson Institute

Continued decline for Murmansk Port

Goods turnover in the Murmansk port is down more than 50% since 2010.

In five years, goods turnover at Russia’s leading Arctic port has dropped by more than 50 percent. The port, a cornerstone infrastructure object in Murmansk Oblast, in the first ten months of 2015 had a 3,8 percent decline compared with the same period 2014, the Independent Barents Observer reports.