Last year, the port of La Spezia handled 12.4 million tonnes of goods, down -5.3% on 2022, of which 6.0 million tonnes at landing (-2.6%) and 6.4 million tonnes at tonnes at loading (-7.7%). Highest volume of traffic of miscellaneous goods, recorded a decline of -7.4% to 10.3 million tonnes, of which 10.2 million tonnes million tonnes of containerised goods (-7.0%) made with Container handling of over 1.1 million TEUs (-9.8%) and 92 thousand tons of conventional goods (-39.0%). In dry bulk also decreased with 48 thousand tons (-45.9%), including 30,000 tons of minerals and building materials (+48.1%) and 19 thousand tons of metallurgical products (-73.1%). In On the other hand, liquid bulk increased with 2.1 million tons (+8.1%), of which 1.8 million tonnes of gaseous products, compressed or liquefied and natural gas (+15.7%) and 309 thousand tons of refined petroleum products (-21.8%).

Traffic in the port of Marina di Carrara is also down which last year totalled 4.9 million tonnes (-12.0%), of which 1.7 million tonnes landed (-7.5%) and almost 3.2 million tons at loading (-14.3%). Miscellaneous goods totalled 3.8 million tonnes (-4.2%), of which 1.8 million tonnes of rolling stock (-6.3%), less 1.4 million tonnes of containerised cargo (+4.0%) with container handling of 103 thousand TEUs (+1.8%) and 583 thousand tonnes of other miscellaneous goods (-14.0%). Solid bulk is amounted to 1.1 million tonnes (-31.1%), of which 885 thousand tons of minerals and building materials (-38.4%) and 228 thousand tonnes of metallurgical products (+27.9%).

In 2023, cruise traffic in La Spezia was 723 thousand passengers (+36.5%) and 13 thousand in Marina di Carrara passengers (-50.8%).

Meanwhile, today the Port System Authority of the Ligurian Sea Orientale, which manages the two ports, and the group's Logistics Hub Ferrovie dello Stato have signed a first memorandum of understanding to promote digital integration between the Port Community System of the ports of La Spezia and Marina di Carrara and the technological systems of the companies of the FS Logistics Hub, whose parent company is Mercitalia Logistics.

The agreement, signed by the CEO of Mercitalia Logistics. Sabrina De Filippis, and the president of the Port Authority, Mario Sommariva, will make it possible to start an IT exchange of data relating to the main processes dedicated to rail transport originating in or arriving at the ports of competence of the PSA, starting with that of La Spezia, continuing to the hinterland of Santo Stefano Magra and then extending to the port of of Marina di Carrara. Communication between information systems and of the two realities will allow a better planning and management of railway operations of the various actors involved in the supply chain, speeding up processes and operations, such as manoeuvring or loading and unloading operations, as well as dedicated to shipping, such as waybills.

The agreement is part of the initiatives that contribute to the wider activities promoted by the Italian Government to the creation of the National Logistics Platform (PLN), coordinated with the by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport through the in-house company RAM, with the aim of digitizing the logistics sector.