In the 2012 traffic of the goods enlivened from the port of it is diminished of 9.7%



Last year the traffic of the goods enlivened from the port of has recorded a decrease of 9.7% attesting itself to 15,4 million tons regarding 17,1 million tons in 2011. The goods to the disembarkation is piled to 6,7 million tons (- 17.7%) and those to the boarding to 8,7 million tons (- 2.5%).

In the segment of the goods several the traffic has been altogether of 12,5 million tons (- 9.4%), of which 4,1 million tons to the disembarkation (- 24.3%) and 8,5 million tons to boarding (0%). The single containerized traffics are pairs to 12,0 million tons (- 10.8%) and the other goods several has totaled 503 thousand tons (+41.3%).

The traffic of the container which counted in containers from 20 feet (teu) has been pairs to 1.247.218 teu (- 4.6%). Referring to the enlivened containerized volume in the 2012 from from Liguria port of call, president of the Harbour Authority of, Lorenzo Forcieri, it has emphasized that draft of "a volume of traffic to consider itself however of great which proportioned relief if to the heavy economic crisis that has manifested in Italy and Europe, interesting several times the world-wide markets of production and consumption and the marine transport in general terms. The port of - it has added - succeeds however with this important result to solid maintain to the second position Italian port of access directed to the markets of the Italy north and this happens in a scene more and more elevated competition with the other ports is in the basin of the Mediterranean that in Europe".

In the 2012 containers enlivened in import from the port they break have been 638,072 teu (- 4.8%) and those enlivened in export 609,146 teu (- 4.3%). The transfer has represented 7.3% of the harbour total traffic with 91 thousand movements.

The Harbour Authority has announced that, regarding the containerized traffics, "in the markets foreign countries served in 2012 from the port of to the first place it turns out the interchange import-export with Asia to 46% of total handlings, followed from the America market to 23%, that with Africa 18%, that with Europe to 8% and that with Oceania 5%. Regarding instead the served markets inland from the port of call they break we find confirmation of the relations with the main regions of final destination: Lombardy 28%, Emilia Romagna 26%, Tuscany 15%, Veneto 12.6%, Liguria 8.6%, Piemonte 5.3%, others 4.5%. The port of - it has found the agency - confirmation therefore its natural vocation to serve the more important Italian markets of the Po plain and the Italy north-center as partner of reference in the logistic chain of the transport goods".

In the 2012 containerized trade enlivened in from Liguria port from La Spezia Container Terminal (LSCT), the terminalista society of the group Contship Italy, has been pairs to 990 thousand teu (altogether 1,1 million teu in 2011), that enlivened from the Terminal of the Gulf of the Tarros group to 138 thousand teu (125 thousand in the 2011) and that totaled from the Speter terminal to about 120 thousand teu (113 thousand in 2011).

Last year the traffic of the liquid bulk enlivened from the port breaks is piled almost 1,5 million tons, with a consisting decrease of 23.4% on the year determined precedence from the heavy bending of the gas imports liquid to terminal GNL Italy di Panigaglia. The single gas volume has been pairs to 794 thousand tons (- 41%). Draft - it has specified the Harbour Authority - of "disappointing results if compared to handlings that terminal GNL has carried out for example in 2006, when they were disembarked 2,2 million to tons of gas liquid. In last the 10 years, such handlings have gone gradually being reduced until the modest current amounts". Instead the refined produced ones are increased of 9.8%, gone up of 9.7% to 446 thousand tons, and the other liquid bulk has grown of 32.4% to about 239 thousand tons.

In the 2012 traffic of the solid bulk it has recorded a rise of 10.4% to a total of beyond 1,4 million tons, increase that is determined by the increase of quantitative of coal disembarked to the Enel terminal for 1,2 million tons (+12.6%) and of the other solid bulk with 172 thousand tons (+18.3%). The enlivened minerals are piled to 17 thousand tons (- 7.3%), while the disembarked cereals have stopped to 36 thousand tons (- 41%).

In the field of the passengers, in the 2012 traffic it has been of beyond 50 thousand unit regarding beyond 90 thousand in the year precedence. The decrease - it has explained the harbour agency - has had to the alternation in the ports of call of companies as Disney Cruises. The traffic last year is subdivided in 42.383 transits to near platform LSCF with 29 ports of call ship, in 421 transits to Lerici with five ports of call ship and 7,435 transits to Port Venus with 38 ports of call ship. The crews to the continuation have grazed 25 thousand total units.