. In the first six months of this year the ports of Olbia, Golfo Aranci and Porto Torres have handled a total of 1,370,121 passengers, a decrease of 20.6% compared to 1,724,761 passengers in the first half of 2010. The three ports have been scaled by 4,119 ships, with a reduction of 17.2% compared to 4,972 ships in the first six months of last year.
Last month, the three ports totaled 588,928 traffic of passengers, a decrease of 23.3% compared to 767,614 passengers in June 2010, and 1226 have been scaled by liners (-5.8%).
"The data, unfortunately - noted the President of the Port Authority of Northern Sardinia, Paul Piro - confirmed the fears often expressed. That June would mark the leap into the deepest crisis was already evident to the naked eye.Half-empty squares of the ports, ships with barely one hundred cars on board, travel cancellations all'ultim'ora represented indisputable signal of the negative trend that we can only seal with the statistics. The collapse of 350 thousand passengers in six months is the son of a general crisis, which exceeds the high cost and the cancellation of ferry lines, and which today is being felt with a force capable of affecting, unfortunately, even the month of July. "
In the first six months of 2011 the only port of Olbia has handled 833,313 passengers (-25.4% on the first half of 2010), in Golfo Aranci traffic was 265,308 passengers (-8.2%) and Porto Torres 271,500 passengers (-15.0%). In the month of June 2011 in Olbia traffic was 361,122 passengers (-29.4% on June 2010), Porto Torres 98 607 passengers (-22.7%), while in Golfo Aranci grew by 0.7 % to 129,199 passengers.
In terms of goods, the port of Olbia has closed the first six months of 2011 with growth of 4.4% of general cargo, which amounted to over 3.1 million tons, while Golfo Aranci has moved goods and registered a decline of 7.1% of commercial vehicles.In Porto Torres, the liquid bulk rose by 2.4% to 773mila tons, while the dry bulk decreased by 33.5% to 478mila tons, the freight rolling stock totaled 728mila tons (+13.3%).
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. In the first six months of this year the ports of Olbia, Golfo Aranci and Porto Torres have handled a total of 1,370,121 passengers, a decrease of 20.6% compared to 1,724,761 passengers in the first half of 2010. The three ports have been scaled by 4,119 ships, with a reduction of 17.2% compared to 4,972 ships in the first six months of last year. 
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