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The Baltic Sea is a busy place with over 60 ports handling some 230m tons of cargo annually. The Russian port complex at St.Petersburg is the largest of these and, in its entirety, is known as the Great Port. Lena Beloglazova reports.

Figure 1: The structure of the Great Port of St. Petersburg cargo turnover in 2003

The Baltic Sea is a busy place with over 60 ports handling some 230m tons of cargo annually. The Russian port complex at St.Petersburg is the largest of these and, in its entirety, is known as the Great Port. Lena Beloglazova reports.