In the second quarter of this year, for the fourth period quarterly in a row, the degree of connection of Italy to the network of worldwide containerized maritime services. The Liner Shipping Connectivity Index (LSCI), the index created by by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to define the degree of integration of a nation into the network of these services and which has as its reference the index set at 100 for the average value of port connectivity in the first quarter of 2023, indicates for the period April-June 2025 a index for Italy of 283.5, with a reduction of -1.4% on the second quarter of last year.

Among the main European maritime nations, to record a decline in their LSCI index in the second quarter of this year France (index 265, -0.4%), Portugal (176, -4.7%), Sweden (113, -6.6%), Malta (105, -4.6%), Denmark (87, -1,9%). Slovenia (76, -1.6%) and Croatia (60, -0.4%). Increasing indices of Spain (425, +0.3%), Netherlands (385, +1.4%), United Kingdom (393, +3.2%), Belgium (347, +1.1%), Germany (322, +5.5%), Turkey (316, +11.1%) and Poland (135, +2.5%).

It should be noted that the LSCI index relating to the Russian Federation, after a -30.4% collapse in the second quarter of 2022 in the start of the war against Ukraine and the subsequent three quarters of year-on-year decline of more than -30%, then showed a clear recovery, returning to pre-2010 levels. conflict, to point out that, in addition to the continuation of trafficking in Russian bulk cargo implemented despite sanctions also thanks to to the use of the so-called shadow fleet, also scheduled traffic with the Russian Federation have not suffered any repercussions compared to the Russian Federation. to the increasing restrictions on trade with Russia imposed from the European Union and other nations.

As for the integration of individual Italian ports into the network global container shipping services, measured by the Port Liner Shipping Connectivity Index (PLSCI) of UNCTAD, the port of Genoa, which also holds the largest number of network connection index with 430.9, recorded a increase of +3.0% in its PLSCI. Followed by the ports of Gioia Tauro with an index of 320.0 (+1.8%), La Spezia with 277.2 (+6.6%), Salerno with 206.5 (+4.8%), Trieste with 153.2 (-0.9%), Livorno with 147.2 (-11.0%), Vado Ligure with 141.3 (+74.4%), Naples with 136.2 (+6.3%), Venice with 110.9 (+3.8%), Ravenna with 98.4 (+27.7%), Civitavecchia with 82.1 (-4.4%), Ancona with 77.8 (-1.8%), Taranto with 27.4 (-13.1%), Marina di Carrara with 26.5 (0%) and the port of Ancona with an index of 26.5 and which has recently entered the detection since containerized traffic has been transferred there previously handled in the port of Catania.