Port of Kaliningrad is the only ice-free Russian sea port on the Baltic Sea coast. Port of Kaliningrad is situated in SE part of the Baltic and has efficient position. Destination to the nearest foreign cities such as Vilnius, Riga, Minsk, Warsaw, Berlin, Copenhagen and Stockholm in average is ranged from 400 km till 650 km.

The berthing places of the port with overall length 17 km are situated both at the northern part of the Kaliningrad Seaway Canal and at the mouth part of the Pregolj river with the joined havens.

Port of Kaliningrad is divided geographically into four cargo handling regions: Kaliningrad, Svetliy, Baltiysk and distant cargo region Pionerskiy. Kaliningrad Seaway Canal is a hydro technical construction, which was built 100 years ago in order to pass vessels from the roadstead up to the cargo berths situated within the city. Seaway Canal is 43 km long, with breadth ranged from 5,0m till 10,5m. Approaching vessels must be submitted to the following restrictions:

Cargo vessels & Tankers: LOA 170 - 200m, beam 25 - 28.4m and draught 8.0 - 9.4m. Maximum allowed air draught is 54m.

Stevedoring companies offer very high speed loading/ unloading operations. They handle various types of general cargo (cellulose, paper, food products, chemicals, cars, containers, steel sheets, pipes, different equipment, timber, nonferrous metals etc.) Various bulk cargoes (coal, ores, coke, soya) are handled at the port. There are open air storage areas for bulk cargoes and covered storage areas, and a number of huge cold warehouses in the port. There are complexes for liquid cargoes.

Ports are connected by rail- and motor ways with the transport network of Russia and other countries.

The Ports play a key role in the economy of the region. It is also the sea gate to the Western Europe and the shortest transport route to the Russian interior regions.