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In the first nine months of the 2011 port of Genoa container (+4.7% has enlivened 1.380.894)
In september the traffic has been pairs to 154.582 teu (+3.4%)
October 31, 2011
The Harbour Authority of Genoa has announced that in the first nine months of this year the port of call of the capital of Liguria has enlivened a traffic of the container pairs to 1.380.894 teu, with an increment of 4.7% regarding the correspondent period of 2010. The increase of the traffic has turned out particularly elevated (+15.2%) to the container Voltri terminal Terminal Europe (VTE).
The traffic in the single one slid september month has been pairs to 154.582 teu, with a progression of 3.4% regarding september 2010.
The genoese harbour agency has specified that in the first nine months of the 2011 increase of the traffic it is supported also in the field of the industrial produced ones and in particular in produced the iron and steel Ilva that have recorded an increment of 37.9%. Good results also for some liquid bulk types, as the mineral oils that to terminal SAAR are increased of 435%. Down instead produced oil (- 5.5%) for the effects of the Libyan situation. A bending also in the field fleeting of ferries (- 17.8%) and of the cruises (- 5.3% is recorded), given to attribute itself more in general terms to the situation of the Africa North and to the international conjuncture.
The Harbour Authority has anticipated that, on the base of the total data of the first nine months, 2011 for port of Genoa percentage of 4.5% regarding 2010 could be shut with an increase, bringing back the volumes enlivened to the figures pre-crisis and therefore to the record of 2007 with beyond 1,8 million teu.
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