In the 2011 traffic of the goods in the port of Bari it is diminished of 4.5%



Last year the ports of Bari, Barletta and Monopolies, that they are administered by the Harbour Authority of the East, have enlivened a traffic of the goods of beyond 6,3 million tons regarding 6,5 million tons in 2010.

The harbour agency has announced that the traffic of the passengers in the single port of Bari has recorded a total increment of 2.5% having attested itself to 1.951.000 passengers regarding 1.903.535 in 2010 and has absorbed the strong bending of Greek traffic (- 16.5%) with the increment of the crocieristici traffics to 586.848 passengers (+15.6%), pairs in absolute value to 79.136 units, which had to the new line of Royal Caribbean that give 2011 have inserted Bari in its routes. Other factors of re-balance of the traffics - it has specified the harbour authority - have been the extraordinary performance of Croatia (+26%) hauled from religious tourism and the estate of Albania (+3.5%).

In the port of Bari the traffic of the buses is increased of 8%, while that of the cars has recorded a bending of 8.5%. Such data - it has emphasized the Harbour Authority - is still more eclatante if it is considered that it is only concentrated on the traffics for Albania and Croatia, as the Greek situation has discouraged strongly the tourist traffic on bus, in particular of that scholastic who represented a meaningful slice of from Bari traffic. The most serious crisis of that Country, with carried its of social conflicts and reduction of the economic activity, has given an ulterior blow to the traffic of the rotabili that in the 2011 have lost 10%.

The Harbour Authority has evidenced also the good test of the traffic goods conventional that has seen also the advent of a meaningful handling of container for traffics strongly connected to the requirements of the territory. The data of the traffic goods, own because the conjuncture is so difficult - has explained - they appear extremely encouraging. For the first time in its history the port of Bari has reached two the million traditional tons of goods (to exclusion of the rotabili) and the ports of Barletta and Monopolies, growing respective of 6% and 9%, have confirmed essential infrastructures for the development of the territory. The data total of the goods of the single port of Bari, discounting the bending of the traffic ro-ro from and for Greece, has been attested to beyond five million tons (- 4.5%).

For 2012 - it has concluded the Harbour Authority - the expectations appear very prudent considered that a beginning of year marked from the blocks of the road haulage, from atmospheric ices and the shipwreck of Costa Concordia, with the recessive economic forecasts, shows a delicate year sure.