Archiving a September 2023 with a -3.6% drop in traffic of goods, which was caused by the reductions of -20.9% in dry bulk and -11.2% in rolling stock mitigated by increases of +6.4% in liquid bulk, +21.4% of containers and +24.9% of other miscellaneous goods, the port of Ravenna closed the entire third quarter of this year with a -9.0% contraction in total freight traffic, having handled 6.29 million tonnes compared to 6.92 million tonnes tonnes in the period July-September 2022. The decrease is was generated by the -10.7% drop in goods at unloading amounted to 5.43 million tonnes, while those at boarding they recorded an increase of +2.6% rising to 865 thousand Tons.

In the miscellaneous goods segment alone, the latest overall figure 2.79 million tonnes (+6.0%, of which 1.80 million tons of conventional goods (+10.4%), 535 thousand tonnes of goods in containers (-6.3%) made with a Container handling equal to 49,510 TEUs (-10.9%) and 459 thousand tonnes of rolling stock (+5.6%). In the liquid bulk sector, the Total for the third quarter of 2023 was 2.34 million tonnes (-22.3%), including 955 thousand tonnes of minerals and building materials (-36.8%), 587 thousand tons of foodstuffs food, feed and oilseeds (-7.3%), 360 thousand tons of cereals (-11.0%), 20 thousand tons of coal (-67.2%), 14 thousand tons of chemicals (-35.8%), 12 thousand tons of metallurgical products (+47.1%) and 397 thousand tons of other bulk (+4.3%). In the liquid bulk sector, the overall figure is of 1.15 million tons (-8.8%), of which 519 thousand tons of refined petroleum products (-5.0%), 248 thousand tonnes of chemical products (+4.2%), 123 thousand tons of petroleum products gaseous, liquefied or compressed gases and natural gas (+23.6%), 30 thousand tons of crude oil (-42.3%) and 234 thousand tons of other liquid loads (-28.9%).

In the third quarter of this year, cruise traffic at Ravenna had 184 thousand passengers (+84.3%), of which 156,000 as home ports (+89.8%) and 27,000 in transit (+57.2%).

In the first nine months of 2023, the port has moved a total of 19.68 million tonnes of goods, with a decrease of -5.3% compared to the same period last year, of which 17.16 million tonnes at landing (-5.3%) and 2.52 million tonnes at tonnes at loading (-5.0%).

According to the System Authority's preliminary estimates Port of the Central and Northern Adriatic Sea, in October 2023 the port of Ravenna handled almost 2.1 million tons of goods, down -10.5% on October 2022.

Regarding the impact of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will have on the traffic of the Ravenna airport, the Port Authority has recalled that the volumes of maritime shipments between Ravenna and Israel account for about 17% of containerized traffic in terms of of TEUs handled by the Italian port, amounting to over 400 thousand tons of goods.