The Association of Italian Ports presented today the second This year's edition of "Port Infographics", the publication produced together with SRM, the study center linked to the Intesa Sanpaolo Group, which illustrates the main statistics on the maritime transport and logistics, at national and through 10 infographics that give immediate view of the economic dimension and volumes of goods that ports and ships manage.

The report highlights that in the first six months of 2025, ports 249,732,019 tons of goods, with a increase of +1.2% over the first half of 2024 driven by the growth in containers (62,824,708 tons, +2.6%) and (28,731,327 tonnes, +18.9%) which more than the decline in liquid bulk cargo (89,322,652 tons, -3.5%) and rolling stock (59,760,355 tonnes, -1.0%). The other types of goods amounted to 9,092,977 tons (+3.6%). In the sector of passengers was recorded an increase of +0.3% in the ferry segment with 6,054,498 passengers and a more accentuated by +5.8% in that of cruises with 5,644,313 passengers as well as in that of local maritime services with 18,108,823 passengers (+7.5%).

An in-depth study of the publication is dedicated to the intra-Mediterranean container traffic, which lists the top ten carriers in this market, which has seen its capacity increase of the fleet employed in the region of 505 thousand TEUs as of December 31 2023 at 552 thousand TEUs as of December 31, 2024. At the end of last year the main carrier in the market was MSC with 25.2% of the Total capacity (22.0% as at 31 December 2023) more from CMA CGM with 17.9% (19.9% at the end of 2023), Arkas with 9.3% (10.5%), Maersk with 9.0% (10.8%), COSCO with 5.2% (5.1%), Unifeeder with 4.3% (1.5%), X-Press Feeders with 3.4% (3.5%), Akkon Lines with 2.6% (2.1%), Hapag-Lloyd with 2.4% (2.1%), Evergreen with 2.1% (3.0%) and from other carriers with 18.7% (19,6%).