After six quarters of decline, in the April-June period of this year the traffic of goods in the ports of Genoa and Savona-Vado Ligure has returned to growth having totaled 16.9 million of tons, with an increase of +2.7% on the second quarter of 2014. 2023 which is the result of an increase in volumes in all main product segments with the exception of industrial dry bulk and a +15.1% increase in traffic in the Savona airport that has more than made up for the decline in the -1.0% recorded by the airport of the Ligurian capital.

In particular, of the 12.6 million tons handled globally from the port of Genoa in the second quarter of 2024, the miscellaneous goods alone amounted to 8.7 million tons (+0.1%), of which 6.1 million tonnes of containerised cargo (+1.0%) Made with a container handling of 642 thousand TEUs (-0.1%) and 2.5 million tons of conventional goods (-2.1%). In the liquid bulk sector, 3.2 million were handled of tons of mineral oils (-1.8%) and 202 thousand tons of other cargo (+24.8%), including 120 thousand tons of chemicals (+17.7%) and 82 thousand tons of vegetable oils and wine (+36.8%). In the Dry bulk cargo sector Commercial traffic was of 193 thousand tons (+24.9%) and the industrial one of 179 thousand tons tons (-38.5%).

Of the more than 4.3 million tons handled in the period April-June of this year from the port of Savona-Vado, almost two million tonnes were made up of miscellaneous goods (+6.3%), including 1.0 million tonnes of conventional cargo (-4.8%) and 994 thousand tons of goods in containers (+20.5%) made with a handling of containers equal to 71 thousand TEUs (-25.5%). In the liquid bulk sector, 1.8 million tons (+11.5%), of which 1.7 million tons of oils minerals (+11.5%) and 30 thousand tons of other cargoes (+13.4%), and in dry bulk 449 thousand tons (+54.8%).

With regard to the passenger sector, the port of Genoa has archived the second quarter of 2024 with a traffic of ferries of 520 thousand passengers (+2.3%) and cruise traffic of 485 thousand passengers (-0.3%), while in the port of Savona the ferry passengers were 77 thousand (-12.9%) and those of the cruises 279 thousand (+3.6%).

Meanwhile, PSA Italy, the group that operates the two container terminals PSA Genova Prà and PSA SECH and in the port of Venice, the PSA Venice-Vecon container terminal, has published the 2023 Sustainability Report in which highlighted the reclassification of the economic value generated and distributed, which underlines how the economic effect of the activities of the Group's three port terminals has a positive impact on all categories of stakeholders, starting with their employees, with a salary remuneration of over 75 million euros, 93% of residents in the provinces of Genoa and Venice, with an impact positive direct on the territory. In addition, each employee of the three terminals of PSA Italy, an average of 34 hours of training for an expense of over 280 thousand euros.

The payment of taxes to the public administration is in total exceeding 16 million euros and, as far as concerns procurement, in 2023 the company's spending on services and consumables was 79.1 million €21.8 million for PSA SECH and €9.8 million for PSA Genova Pra', €9.8 million million euros for PSA Venice-Vecon, for a total of 110.7 million of purchases, of which more than 80% to suppliers located on the Italian territory.

From an environmental point of view, the commitment to the reduction of emissions by the PSA group, which pursues the targets of -50% by 2030, -75% by 2040 and zero emissions by 2050.