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July 7, 2022
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- The port of Ravenna is preparing to close the first half of the year
this year with record traffic
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- In May, almost 2.8 million
tons of cargo (+15.5%). Clay, first coming from
from Ukraine, now comes from other European nations, but also
from Asia
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 In May 2022 the port of Ravenna handled a traffic
of goods of 2.78 million tonnes, a volume representing a
increase of +15.5% on the same month last year and that, with
in all likelihood, will allow the port of call to
close the first six months of 2022 with a new historical record of
semi-annual traffic. According to the Port System Authority
of the North Central Adriatic Sea, in fact, the total of the
first half of this year should stand at more than
13.5 million tons, with a growth of +7% on the first
semester of 2021 and also an increase of +3% on the first semester
of the pre-pandemic year of 2019.-
- In the first six months of 2022, only goods on landing have
totaled 2,44 million tons, with an increase of +16.9%
on the first half of last year, while goods
at embarkation they amounted to 333 thousand tons (+6.4%).
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- In the miscellaneous goods sector alone, the overall figure of
containerized goods has been of 250 thousand tons (+7.0%),
traffic carried out with a container handling equal to
25 thousand teu (+17.8%), that of rolling stock of 149 thousand tons
(+21.4%) and the figure of conventional goods of 651 thousand tons
(-4,9%). Strong growth in solid bulk with 1.25 million
tons (+27.1%) as well as liquid bulk with 260 thousand
tons of petroleum products (+26.2%) and 220 thousand tons of
other liquid loads (+25.1%).
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- Regarding the effects of the Russia-Ukraine war
on the activity of the port of Ravenna, the AdSP, and in particular
on the trafficking of clay, feldspars and sands for the
ceramics, which represents a primary product segment for the
scalo, the Port System Authority has highlighted that from
end of February the ceramics sector, mainly the areas
Emilian and Faenza, remained without supplies and,
once the clay stored in the port warehouses of
Ravenna, the search for alternatives to Ukraine has begun.
So they arrived - announced the institution - ships from the
Turkey, Spain and Portugal which replaced part
the quantity of clay (2.5 million tonnes) before
Port of Ravenna received from Ukrainian ports, especially Nikolaev
and Mariupol, destroyed by Russian bombing and mined. The authority
port explained that it was so averted the
stock break feared by Italian ceramic entrepreneurs,
when the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine had suggested that the
dramatic increase in energy costs could have been added to the
problem of lack of clays, with the risk of having to block the
production of tiles Made in Italy. The body has specified that it is
also worked to identify other sources of supply and
the greatest expectation was for the first ship from Asia:
at the end of May, in fact, it is docked at the Sapir terminal in San
Vitale, coming from India, the ship Sider Onda with a
load of 30 thousand tons of clay. In addition to India, also the
Germany stands as a possible source of supply
alternative to Ukraine with regard to clays. Thus
on the occasion of Ceramitec in Munich, Confindustria
Ceramics and BKRI, the homologous German association of manufacturers of
raw materials for ceramics and industrial minerals, have signed a
letter of intent that will allow the Ceramic District to
Sassuolo to import fine white clays. In particular, the
German companies have pledged to increase by up to 10% by
August and up to 30% by the end of 2022 supplies of clay and others
minerals to Italian potters.
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- In addition to that of goods, in May 2022 the port of Ravenna has
also recorded a cruise traffic of almost 22 thousand
passengers, activity that in May 2021 was stopped due to
of the pandemic.
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- In the first five months of this year the airport has enlivened
globally 11.47 million tons of goods, with a
increase of +8.3% on the same period of 2021, of which 1.10
million of containerized cargoes (+9.0%) with a handling of
containers pairs to 103 thousand teu (+12.9%), 746 thousand tons of
rolling stock (+24.9%), 2.96 million tons of conventional goods
(+10.1%), 4.70 million tons of solid bulk (+3.8%), 1.02
million tons of petroleum products (+1.5%) and 946 thousand
tons of other liquid bulk (+23.1%).
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