In the first six months of this year, the port of La Spezia 6.24 million tons of goods handled, with an increase of +2.0% over the first half of 2025 generated by growth +6.4% in the volumes of general goods to 5.78 million tons. The Port System Authority of the Ligurian Sea Orientale has announced that in this product segment the container traffic amounted to 634,021 TEUs (+3.5%), of which 548,200 TEUs in import-export (-2.2%) and 85,821 TEUs in transhipment (+65,5%). The full containers imported alone amounted to 173,596 TEUs (+8.5%), while full containers for export were states equal to 238,110 TEUs (-4.1%). In the liquid bulk sector traffic was 440 thousand tons (-34.7%) and in that of dry bulk cargo of 19 thousand tons (+155.3%).

In the first half of 2026, cruise traffic at the Spezia was 255 thousand passengers in transit (-8.5%).

In the first six months of this year, the other port administered from the Ligurian Port Authority, that of Marina di Carrara, has moved a total of 2.52 million tons of goods (+16.5%). The miscellaneous goods were 2.21 million tons (+20.5%), of which 1.09 million tons of rolling stock (+20.1%), 786 thousand tons of goods in containers (+25.3%) made with a handling of containers equal to 57,199 TEUs (+18.9%), including 51 thousand to and from the Sardinia (26.8%), and 336 thousand tons of other miscellaneous goods (+11,7%). Dry bulk cargo totaled 315 thousand tons (-5,2%). Cruise traffic was five thousand passengers in transit (-33.7%).