Last August, traffic in the ports of Genoa and Savona-Vado Ligurian was 5.12 million tons, with a increase of +2.5% over August which was determined from the increase in bulk volumes that more than offset the significant drop in miscellaneous goods. In the latter segment, 3.11 million tons were handled, with a decrease of -14.4% generated both by the reduction of goods in containers, and amounted to 2.04 million tonnes (-16.7%) with a handling of containers equal to 250,435 TEUs (-2.0%), both from the contraction in conventional cargo volumes down to 1.07 million of tons. The traffic of dry bulk was 215 thousand tons in the commercial sector (+4.2%) and 28 thousand tons tonnes in the industrial sector (-55.2%). In the bulk sector 1.59 million tons of liquid oils were handled minerals and other energy products (+64.7%), 51 thousand tons of vegetable oils and wine (+152.6%) and 46 thousand tons of products chemists. The global volume of fuel and fuel supplies was 72 thousand tons (-13.0%).

In addition, in August 2025 the port of Genoa alone, with a total of of 3.68 million tonnes handled, recorded a growth of +5.7% thanks to the +16.7% increase in volumes handled in the Genoa-Sampierdarena basin, amounted to 2.76 million tons, while in the Genoa basin Pra' was accused a drop of -17.6% with 919 thousand tons handled. In Savona-Vado Total traffic was 1.44 million tons (-4.9%), of which 407 thousand tons handled in the port of Savona (-13.8%), 454 thousand tons in Vado Ligure (-29.2%) and 581 thousand tons in the Vado roadstead (+44.1%).

Last August, passenger traffic in the two Ligurian ports decreased by -4.4% following the contraction of -8.4% in the ferry segment which totaled 651 thousand passengers, while cruise passengers grew by +7.0% to 261 thousand unit.

In the first eight months of 2025, the total freight traffic in the two ports managed by the Port System Authority of the Western Ligurian Sea was 42.86 million tons, with a reduction of -0.7% over the same period of last year, of which 31.87 million tonnes were handled in the port of Genoa (-2.1%) and 10.99 million tons in the port of Genoa Savona-Vado (+3.6%). The total figure for miscellaneous goods was of 27.09 million tonnes (-2.2%), of which 17.93 million tonnes tons of containerized goods (-0.2%) made with a container handling of 1,995,282 TEUs (+6.2%) and 9.17 million tonnes of conventional goods (-6.0%). Bulk commercial sector was 1.60 million tonnes (-0.1%) and the solid bulk of the industrial one 728 thousand tons (+36,9%). In the liquid bulk sector, oil traffic minerals and other energy products was 12.28 million of tons (+0.1%), that of vegetable oils and wine of 339 thousand tons (+22.3%) and the traffic of chemical products of 294 thousand tons (-4.7%). Bunker supplies and on-board supplies have totalled 519 thousand tonnes (+10.2%). Ferry traffic is 1.93 million passengers (-5.7%) and that of cruises of 1.53 million passengers (+4.2%).

Meanwhile, next Wednesday at 4.00 p.m., at the Aliseo Room of the Porto Antico Congress Center in Genoa, will hold the conference "Think Logistics, Think Spediporto" organized by the association of freight forwarders as part of the "Genoa Shipping Week 2025" with the aim of deepening the themes of the Logistics Zone Simplified and the Customs Free Zone closed.

The speakers at the conference will be Giampaolo Botta (director General Spediporto), Maurizio D'Amico (member of the Committee Address of the Simplified Logistics Zone Port and Inland Port of Genoa representing the MIT), Jacopo Riccardi (manager Blue Economy, Energy and Logistics System Development Sector and Port of the Liguria Region), Cinzia Caviglione (Business Service General Affairs and Legal Affairs Directorate of the City Metropolitana), Laura Ghio (manager of the Planning and Port Work of the Port System Authority of the Sea Western Liguria), Federico Pepè (Territorial Directorate Liguria Customs Agency), Massimiliano Giglio (secretary Assagenti) and Edoardo Allegretti (Spedigiovani).