Last March, the port of Genoa handled 4.22 million of tons of goods, with a slight increase of +0.6% compared to March 2024, while traffic in the port of Savona-Vado Ligure recorded a sharper increase of +40.4% rising to 1.55 million tons.

In the first quarter of 2025, both ports, which are administered by the Port System Authority of the Ligurian Sea Western, they handled 15.82 million tons of goods, with an increase of +1.4% over the first three months of last year, of which 11.54 million tons handled by the port of the Ligurian capital (-4.8%) and 4.28 million tons from the port of Savona-Vado (+23.5%).

The Port Authority announced that in the quarter in both ports the amounted to 10.04 million tonnes (+4.3%), of of which 6.83 million tons of containerized cargo (+11.4%) Built with a container handling of 725,344 TEUs (+10.0%) and 3.21 million tonnes of conventional goods (-8,2%). With regard to volume growth in the containers, the Port Authority specified that the contribution of the different dimensions that make up the traffic volumes of the sector is but varied, also in relation to the persistence of the uncertainties due to the Suez crisis and the fact that, precisely because of the difficulties, the terminals of the system have been Selected by carriers for some important phase-in operations and phase out as part of the reorganization of services. The a dimension that has grown the most also during the first quarter of the year - specified the Port Authority - is that which includes transhipment activities (135,084 TEUs, +107.3%) and which represented 18.6% of the total in the period of the total movements in the airports of the system, compared to the of an average share in the three-year period 2022-24 of 9.7%. On the gateway volumes, the handling of full containers is growth of +6.4% compared to the first quarter of 2024, in line with with what was already recorded in the last part of last year: exports slowed down by -3.2%, while exports Imports grew by +20.8% (+36,651 full TEUs), also in consideration of the fact that the variation is determined by the comparison with a period of last year immediately following the decision of the companies to divert the route of ships from the Red Sea. The landings of full containers are, however, significantly up also compared to 2023 (+9.4%), due to a total of 213,107 TEUs. The combination of the growth of the landings and the contraction in shipments during the quarter The handling of empty containers was also affected, amounting to 122,262 TEUs, which is down 20.8% compared to 2024.

In the first quarter of 2025 in the liquid bulk sector The traffic of mineral oils was 4.40 million tons (-8.5%) and that of other liquid bulk cargo of 191 thousand tons (-17.2%), including 101 thousand tons of vegetable oils and wine (+2.9%) and 90 thousand tons of chemicals (-32.2%). In marked growth in dry bulk traffic, with those in the commercial sector amounted to 689 thousand tons (+26.1%) and those in the industrial sector to 352 thousand tons (+44.5%). The bunkers and ship's stores amounted to 145 thousand tons (+5.4%).

The decline in passenger traffic continued in the quarter passengers, with ferry traffic that in the first three months of this year it totaled 155 thousand passengers (-5.6%) and with a cruise traffic, which has been declining for more than a year now, which was equal to 261 thousand passengers (-6.3%).