the port of Ravenna has concluded the 2013 with a new record anniversary in the container



In the 2013 port of Ravenna it has established the own new record anniversary of handling of the container having totaled a traffic pairs to 226.760 teu, with an increment of +8.9% regarding 2012. The precedence record was recorded in 2011 with 215.336 teu.

Altogether in the 2013 Italian port it has enlivened 22,5 million tons of goods, with an increase of +4.5% regarding 21,5 million tons in the year precedence. It disembarks have been pairs to 19,1 million tons (+4.1%), while it embarks to it are piled to 3,4 million tons (+8.9%).

Last year the emphasized increment more is recorded in the field of the goods several, that it has concluded 2013 with a total of 8,2 million tons (+15.5%), of which 2,5 million containerized tons of goods (+8.2%), 1,2 million tons of cargos ro-ro (+98.8%) and 4,6 million several tons of other goods (+8.1%). The Harbour Authority of Ravenna has specified that in the segment of the container the increase has been pairs to 11.786 teu for full loads (+7.7%) and to 6.822 teu for empty (+12.5%) and that optimal has been also the data of handling trailer: in the 2013 on the Ravenna-Catania line traffic CIN/Tirrenia and Grimaldi it has been altogether of 42.542 pieces against 25,405 last year (+67.5%) to which those of the Ravenna-Brindisi draft join, that they have been 10,678 against the 404 last year. "One holds also in consideration - it has evidenced the harbour agency - the fact that to the Ravenna-Catania-Brindisi line of Grimaldi, begun to November 2012, last December has come abreast the new biweekly Grimaldi service ro-pax between Italy and Greece that connects the ports of Ravenna to Igoumenitsa and Patrasso and that esteem can in the arc of 2014, operatively, to enliven altogether between the 10,000 and 15,000 pieces. Moreover the number of passengers is meaningful that uses already such service and that, reasonably, is destined to increase in considerable way, during the summery season. In total the number of the trailer of 2013 has been of 54.359 pieces, almost the double quantity regarding 26,259 last year (+107%). Much bond also the result for the traffic of new motors vehicle, than with 24.935 pieces, has recorded an increment of 60.9%".

Last year in the section of the solid bulk the traffic has been of 9,8 million tons (+0.8%), of which 2,4 million tons of alimentary commodities and feeds (+1.8%), 4,3 million tons of minerals, concretes and soccers (- 0.6%), 1,4 million tons of cereals (+20.5%), 1,4 million tons of fertilizers (- 2.8%) and 204 thousand tons of coal (- 40.3%).

The liquid bulk has been attested 4,4 million to tons, with a bending of the -3,6% on 2012. The refined produced ones have shown a decrease of -0,6% to the 1,8 million one tons. Decreasing also the chemicals ones with 1,0 million tons (- 13.4%) and the crude oil with 88 thousand tons (- 47.3%), while the volumes of liquified gases and the other liquid bulk are increased, gone up respective of +4.0% and +6.4% to 470 thousand and 989 thousand tons.

Last year the traffic of the crocieristi is diminished of the -6,5% coming down to 94 thousand unit, of which 19 thousand as home port (- 48.7%) and 75 thousand in transit (+17.7%). The harbour agency of Ravenna has emphasized that in the 2013 objective of 100 thousand crocieristi it is not reached because of the exceptional conditions negative meteomarine that have plagued the high Adriatic to the end of November causing the cancellation of two ports of call of ships of great dimensions. "In the 2014 - it has observed the Harbour Authority - crocieristico traffic it will depend on the strategic choices of the carrier world-wide of field, between which Royal Caribbean, main operator of the terminal, with which the Harbour Authority and the Ravenna concessionaire Passenger terminal will meet to March to Miami".

In the single month of ravennate Decembers 2013 the port has enlivened beyond 1,9 million tons of goods, with a progression of +16.0% regarding December 2012.

"The results of the traffic 2013, in an economic situation of the Country still altogether much critic, - the president of the Harbour Authority of Ravenna has commented, Galliano Di Marco - confirm that the port of continuous Ravenna to being leader in handling of some types of goods and express important potentialities, that they are being manifested, also for other types of traffic. In this context the realization of the great project of the "Hub harbour of Ravenna", with the potenziamento and adaptation of the docks and the deepening of the backdrops of the port (for a total expense - already financed - of about 200 million euros), will not be able that to improve the current situation".

"All that premised - it has concluded Of Marco referring to the hypothesis of the constitution of new harbour districts been left over from the minister of Infrastructures and the Transports, Maurizio Lupi - Harbour Authority of Ravenna does not fear some reform market-driven - indeed for a long time it asks it is to Assoporti that to the competent ministries - and confirmation the own absolute centrality for the traffic goods of the Adriatic".

Participating this morning to the reunion of the Harbour Committee the vice mayor of Ravenna with delegation to the port, Giannantonio Mingozzi, that it has expressed sharing regarding the appraisals of the president Of Marco on the hypothesis of legislative reform on the ports, it has emphasized that "every proposal of reform and new harbour amalgamations up to here known but never made official, considers the port of Ravenna a problem because it is the only port that grows in Italy. In fact - Mingozzi has rimarcato - the traffic to consuntivo 2013 not only records an increase of 4% and in the field of the container but also in all the others. Today we are the seventh Italian port and if we considered our commercial volume and of handling, removed the oil part, we would be the quarter Italian port; this objective is reached in little years and those 23 million tons of goods enlivened in the 2013 first of all give annoyance to our competitors in the Adriatic beginning from Venice to go to Ancona".

"I am convinced - it has continued the vice mayor - than the proposals of new harbour districts suggested by minister Lupi are born just from this competitive and innovative ability that Ravenna demonstrates. We are the Harbour Authority that has the best balance than management against the percentage of cost of the staff more lowland than all the 28 Harbour Authorities; we are between the little hub harbour with ability to development in areas not still used. We above all aim for new terminals container and new services thanks to the engagement of the private operators and for a market penetration and logistic that added value to our activities carries. The true emergencies - it has found Mingozzi - are not those to reorganize Ravenna with fantomatiche strategies of amalgamation of Italian ports, but it is necessary to put in field normative effective, for example on the times of the dredgings, with the simplification of the law procedures, to increase the efficiency of cargo handling in port, to defend our ports of the mean and Adriatic high in the cares of Slovenian and Croatian ports, to entrust a effective autonomy financial institution to the Harbour Authorities that is not based alone on the Vat as happens today. For all these reasons the Municipality of Ravenna is in front line in order to defend the identity and the role that in the years the Harbour Authority has earned and wants to continue to exercise in the full respect of the rules of the market and in support of the economy of all a region".