If after the -20.7% drop in traffic handled in the second quarter of this year, in the following quarter the decline in cargoes handled from the port of Civitavecchia significantly attenuated, having been -2.4% in the period July-September 2023, the growth trend in the traffic of cruises in the port of Lazio have been further after the strong recovery recorded once the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, but the number of cruise passengers has However, it reached a record high and was clearly higher than before the global health crisis.

In the third quarter of this year, the decrease of -2.4% in total cargoes handled by the port, which amounted to 2.62 million tonnes compared to 2.68 million in the same period last year, was produced by the reduction of unloaded goods stood at 1.61 million tonnes (-6.4%) partially offset by the increase in cargo on loading by 1.01 million tonnes (+4.7%). In addition, the overall decline in was caused by the significant drop of -40.3% in bulk amounted to a total of 442 thousand tonnes, of which 281 thousand tons of coal (-46.9%), 108 thousand tons of Metallurgical products, iron ores, minerals and non-metals ferrous materials (-28.8%), 24 thousand tons of building materials (+510.5%) and 30 thousand tons of other dry bulk (-44.4%). The liquid bulk, equal to 340 thousand tons of petroleum products increased, increased by +55.9%. In the miscellaneous goods sector 1.84 million tonnes were handled (+6.6%), of which 1.60 million tons of rolling stock (+4.2%) and 239 thousand tons of containerized goods (+26.6%) made with a handling of containers equal to 30 thousand TEUs (+27.3%). Vehicle traffic is 428 thousand vehicles (+8.7%).

In the passenger sector, ferry traffic is 927 thousand units (+5.0%) and that of cruise passengers of 1.40 million units (+36.8%).

In the first nine months of 2023, global freight traffic 7.10 million tonnes, a decrease of -7.9% on the corresponding period last year, of which €4.57 million tonnes of goods at unloading (-9.1%) and 2.52 million tonnes on boarding (-5.6%). In the miscellaneous goods sector, the figure total was 4.68 million tonnes (-2.9%), including 3.99 million tonnes of ro-ro cargoes (-2.8%) and 676 thousand tons of containerized cargo (-3.6%). Bulk 1.64 million tonnes (-29.2%) and those liquid 781 thousand tons (+36.5%). Passengers on the 1.44 million (+10.9%) and cruise passengers 2.58 million (+55,5%).