The Sardinian ports of Olbia, Golfo Aranci and Porto Torres archiviano 2011 recording a traffic hemorrhage



In the 2011 traffic of the passengers in the three Sardinian ports of Olbia, Golfo Aranci and Porto Torres are diminished altogether of 23.2% being piled to 4.410.898 units regarding 5.743.032 units in the year precedence. In bending (- 12.2%) also the ports of call of the ships of line, pairs to 9.553 in 2011 regarding 10.879 in 2010.

The Harbour Authority of the Sardinia North has evidenced as 2011 have been a year that has marked a crisis unprecedented for the system of the marine transports of the northern Sardinia, projected, in a single season, behind ten-year-old. "That as soon as concluded - the president of the agency has commented, Paolo Piro - it is a year to forget. The concomitanza of the economic crisis with the exorbitant increase of the prices of tickets and the fuel has generated a situation unprecedented. It is under observation of all, and the numbers speak clear, than our ports they have made a leap behind ten-year-old. After two lustrums of phenomenal increase, irony of the risen ones, in the 2011 we find again ourselves catapultati in the past, to leave again from the same results achieved in 2001".

Last year it has been the port of Olbia to record the consisting loss more. The port of call has enlivened 2.670.453 passengers (- 29.9% on 2010), since report the landing place to 2001 when passengers journeyed altogether 2,6 million. The traffic of the goods several has marked instead a +3.9% attesting itself to 6.337.545 tons.

Golfo Aranci has archived item 2011 with a traffic fleeting of 880.514 units, down of 6.6% on the year precedence. Vice versa the marine traffic has totaled an increment of 5.2%, with total 1,458 movements ship, thanks to the increase of the race of the line with Civitavecchia covered from the Saremar. In the field of the goods the traffic has been annulled and is collapsed of beyond 58% handling of the railway wagons.

Negative also the consuntivo of Porto Torres, than in 2011 has enlivened 859,931 passengers (- 13.1%) on a total of 1.972 movements ship (- 4.9%). If two are excluded single positive months - it has explained the Harbour Authority - the port of the north the Sardinian west has marked a constant decrement of the movements ship regarding 2010: the little broken new presence has been able in order to check the collapse caused from the strong reduction of the race from and for Genoa of company GNV and from the suspension, in the winter period, of Civitavecchia - Porto Torres - Barcelona of Grimaldi Lines. In increase, instead, the traffic of the goods ro-ro that it has been pairs to 1.409.224 tons (+3.2%), while the bulk sand banks is diminished of 19.1% to 1.204.914 tons and the liquid bulk is dropped of 25.6% to 1.170.571 tons.

Also 2012 do not promise bond nothing. "That as soon as begun - Piro has explained - it will be a difficult year. The signs that arrive from the navigation companies are not at all positive. If it is true that we assist to a lowering of the prices regarding the summery period and to a return to almost normality, we must get to terms with the increase of the costs of the fuel and the management of the entire operativity of the fleets and, above all, with the economic uncertainty that pushes the Italians, and not only, to reconsider the expense for a vacation in Sardinia".

"The insularity - it has emphasized the president of the Harbour Authority - will end in order to become a strong one discriminating. It is undeniable that to travel from and for the Sardinia will be more and more onerous, but still more harmful risks than to be the repercussion on the cargo handling, on which the increments of all the operating costs of the transport will flow in general terms, with a final price which put up for the consumer and Sardinian producing it succumb regarding the competition of other markets".