The conjunctural note on the transport goods of Confetra confirmation the trend negative of the field



The conjunctural note on the transport goods reported to the first semester of this year and elaborated from Centro Studi Confetra (General Confederation Italiana of the transports and the Logistics) confirmation the trend negative of the field evidencing a decrease in terms of volume and of turnover of the entire section regarding the same period of 2011.

Confetra explains that regarding the road haulage on the road, the international section succeeds to maintain a sure stability on the market with a loss of traffic and turnover only -0,5%, while the situation is very various for operators national that forgiveness important quotas is of traffic -4% that of turnover -5%.

In fort decrease also aerial cargo (- 5.8%), that it suffers from the slow down of the increase of the Asian economies.

Also the marine traffic closes the semester with a sign negative: -5,1% (container teu) and -3,0% (tons bulk). The transport ro-ro records an light increase of +0.8%, thanks to the restoration of the commercial traffics with the Africa North after the so-called Arabic spring. The supremacy of the resumption of the traffic ro-ro - Confetra specifies - goes to the port of Naples, with an amazing increase of +77.1%. To signal an increase of the traffic container is to Genoa +12.8% that to Trieste +18.5%, while in the ports of transhipment it collapses Taranto -61,7% and it is negative also the port of Gioia Tauro -6,6%, while Cagliari marks a +6.8%.

Continuous the railway section also in first semester 2012 to record losses of traffic (- 4.8%), confirming the structural crisis of the field.

Regarding the heavy means transit along the main alpine passes the data are all negatives: Fréjus -7,9%, Ventimiglia -5,6%, Brenner -4,8%, Monte Bianco -2,3%. In the air traffic the Milanese pole Linate/Malpensa marks -8,68%, which it answers with a -8,16% roman pole of Ciampino/Fiumicino. Positive only Bergamo Orio al Serio +1.6%.

To this situation of suffering of the entire field - specific Confetra - negative strongly joins to a data on the registration of the heavy vehicles, than in the April months and May 2012 it has made to record a advanced bending to -40%. The difficulties that is living the section reflect also in the bank suffering of the enterprises that operate in the field "transport and storage": in a year they have grown of 34% (first trimester 2011/first trimester 2012), exceeding 2,4 billion euros. Examining the period first trimester 2009/first trimester the 2012 increase is pairs to 149%.

"The slow down of the economic activities, begun to half last year - Confetra finds - continues to make itself to feel - and consequently the field of the transport and the logistics suffers. Pack-saddles to think that today mean times of proceeds are 87 days, while the insolvencies regarding the turnover arrive to 2.6%".