Last March, the traffic of goods in the ports of Genoa and Savona-Vado Ligure amounted to 5.30 million tonnes, with a decrease of -9.0% on March 2023 generated by the decline in -3.9% of cargo volumes on the quays of the port of call of 4.20 million tonnes and the -24.2% reduction in volumes handled at Savona-Vado results amounted to 1.10 million tonnes.

The significant decrease in traffic at the Savona airport is was caused by declines in freight volumes containerized (186 thousand tons, -33.5%), of solid bulk (90 thousand tonnes, -33.2%), mineral oils (422 thousand tonnes, -36.1%) and supplies of fuel and on-board stores (4 thousand tonnes, -29.3%) which were partially offset increases in conventional goods traffic (391 thousand tonnes, +4.9%) and vegetable oils and wine (12 thousand tonnes, +138,8%).

In March 2024, containerized cargo in the port of Genoa totalled 2.0 million tonnes (-1.2%), 903 thousand tons (-1.1%), dry bulk in the 44 thousand tons (+1.4%) and in the industrial 68 thousand tons (-15.8%). In addition, in the liquid bulk cargo handled 1.0 million tonnes of mineral oils (-8.7%), 51 thousand tons of chemical products (-14.2%) and 19 thousand tons of vegetable oils and wine (-23.8%).

As far as passenger traffic is concerned, the ferries in Savona have 2,000 people handled (+147.8%) and 55,000 people in Genoa (+6.9%), while in Savona there were 37 thousand cruise passengers (+65.8%) and in Genoa 70 thousand (+40.5%).

In the first quarter of 2024, the two Ligurian ports, which are administered by the Port System Authority of the Ligurian Sea Western, handled a total of 15.60 million tonnes, with a decrease of -2.4% compared to the first three months of 2019. last year, of which 12.13 million tonnes were handled by the port of Genoa (+1.0%) and 3.46 million tons handled from Savona-Vado airport (-12.5%).

In the port of Genoa, the quarterly traffic of miscellaneous goods is remained stable at 8.0 million tonnes, of which 5.6 million tonnes of containerised cargo (-0.1%) built with a container handling of 952,386 TEUs (+1.1%) and over 2.4 million tonnes of conventional goods (+0,3%). Dry bulk in the commercial segment was 163 thousand tons (-9.3%) and industrial 244 thousand tonnes (-15.5%). In the liquid bulk sector, 3.4 million tonnes of mineral oils handled (+6.7%), 133 thousand tons of chemical products (-0.5%) and 71 thousand tons vegetable oils and wine (-15.9%).

In the first three months of this year, miscellaneous goods in Savona-Vado amounted to more than 1.6 million tonnes (-6.8%), including less than 1.1 million tonnes of conventional goods (+4.9%) and 563 thousand tons of containerized goods (-23.1%) totalled with a container handling of 66,933 TEUs (-18,4%). Dry bulk cargo was 383 thousand tons (-21.0%) and liquid bulk more than 1.4 million tonnes (-15.5%), of which 1.4 million tons of mineral oils (-15.5%) and 27 thousand tonnes of vegetable oils and wine (-15.4%).

In the passenger sector, ferry traffic at Savona-Vado was 4 thousand people (+6.6%) and in Genoa 160 thousand people (+1.2%), while cruise traffic in the Savona airport was 109 thousand passengers (+73.0%) and Genoa of 169 thousand passengers, the latter number representing the A new record for the first quarter of the year.