This year is attended a decrease of the -12% of the cruises in the port of Civitavecchia, but in 2015 a new record is previewed



If in the 2013 port of Civitavecchia it has confirmed its Mediterranean leadership in enlivened the crocieristico traffic having beyond 2,5 million passengers, with an increase of +6% regarding the year precedence, this year the Latium port previews to record a bending of the -12% regarding 2013, but in 2015 it will return to record a strong increase and to establish a new record of traffic. The president of the Harbour Authority of Civitavecchia has said today, Pasqualino Monti, in the course of the day of opening of the crocieristica manifestation international Cruise Shipping Miami, than thursday in the city of Florida will be concluded.

"The market of the cruises in the Mediterranean - Monti has explained - will mainly endure this year rest a due to the diversification of the routes, in European areas, by the main ones players of the market. But beginning from 2015 will return to grow with decision being recovered also the bending of this year". "On the base of the reservations communicate to us from the crocieristiche companies - it has added - we know that the crocieristico traffic to Civitavecchia will lose about 12% regarding 2013, but have also full knowledge that 2015 will be a new year record with a provisional increase of beyond 20%". According to the forecasts, in absolute terms the 2014 would have to be concluded with a traffic of about 2.230.000 passengers, while in the 2015 traffic it would have to go up beyond the quota record of 2.700.000 passengers.

According to Monti, the contraction of the crocieristica activity in the Mediterranean in existence this year is from ascribing to two phenomena parallels: on one side, the instability of the side south of the Mediterranean that however has penalized the routes, reducing the number of the ports of port of call available and sure; from the other the continuous search by the great companies of new markets in which asserting produced the cruises. This has provoked the displacement of great ships in areas of market until today almost unexplored, included those of Asia and Africa. "But the future - it has emphasized the president of the port of Civitavecchia - positive reserve however indications. From this the necessity comes down for the ports of Rome to print an ulterior acceleration is to the works in progress to Civitavecchia, that they proceed in the perfect respect of the times and that they are indispensable in order to assure to the crocieristica question a more and more efficient offer of services, is to the newborn crocieristico port of call of Fiumicino".

While, on the front of the goods, the harbour system of Civitavecchia, Fiumicino and Gaeta has closed 2013 with a traffic of 15,8 million tons, with a decrease of the -13,7% regarding the year precedence. The goods several tons are dropped of the -1,5% almost 4,6 million, of which 454 thousand tons of goods in container (+8.5%) with a handling of containers pairs to 54.019 teu (+6.0%), 4,0 million tons of cargos ro-ro (- 2.8%) and 109 thousand several tons of other goods (+10.7%). The liquid bulk is diminished of -23,7% to the 5,5 million one tons and those sand banks are dropped of -11,4% to the 5,7 million one tons. The passengers of the regular lines have been almost 1,5 million unit (- 8.9%).