Eurostat anticipates the data on the traffic of the goods enlivened in the ports of the EU in 2012



Today Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, has diffused the data on the traffic of the goods enlivened in the ports of the EU in 2012. The total of the year is of 3,7 billion tons, with a decrement of the -1,0% regarding 2011. After a period of continuous increments year on year of the volume of goods enlivened in the ports of the EU that goes from first trimester 2010 to the first trimester of 2012 - has found Eurostat - the appearing resumption of the European harbour activity has been concluded in according to trimester of 2012. In 2012, with consecutive decrease in last the three trimesters, the harbour activity in the EU has turned out slightly inferior regarding the volume of beyond 3,7 billion tons recorded seven years very before, in 2005.

Totally in the 2012 marine transport of the EU it is diminished of the -1,0% regarding the year precedence. However if on one side transport by sea international and national intra-EU is dropped respective of the -1,4% and the -6,6%, marine transport international extra-EU instead is increased of +1.4%. On the whole in 2012 64% of the goods enlivened in the EU by sea are transported by or towards ports to out of the EU confirming the marine transport which modality by far more important for the shipment to long distance of goods from or for the EU in terms of tons.

In the 2012 single Italian ports they have enlivened altogether 476,8 million tons of goods, with a bending of the -4,6% regarding the year precedence, and if such volume turns out advanced regarding 469,9 million tons enlivened in 2009, year in which the impact of world-wide the economic crisis has been perceived more acutely, moreover turns out little inferior regarding 477,0 million tons enlivened in far away 2003.

In 2012 Holland the main nation of the EU for transport volume has confirmed itself goods for marine way in Europe with a total of 543,2 million tons (+2.0% on 2011), while Rotterdam, Antwerp and Amburgo - in spite of a contraction of the enlivened traffic - have maintained their role of three put up ports of the EU respective having totaled 395,6 million tons (- 0.2%), 164,5 million tons (- 2.4%) and 113,5 million tons (- 0.7%).

For that it concerns to the various types of traffic, in the 2012 the liquid bulk has represented 39% of the volume total of goods enlivened in the ports of the EU continuations from solid bulk (23%), from goods containerized (20%) and from rotabili (12%).

In the 2012 traffic of the passengers in the ports of the EU it has been of 398,1 million unit, with a decrease of the -3,5% regarding 2011. Such bending is determined mainly by the reduction of the number of the passengers disembarked and boarded in Italy and Greece, the two main Eu country for the transport of passengers by sea, in which the traffic is piled respective 76,7 million passengers (- 6.3%) and 73,4 million passengers (- 7.3%).