To February the port of Ravenna has enlivened 1,7 million tons of goods (- 0.6%)



Last month the port of Ravenna has enlivened almost 1,7 million tons of goods, with a bending of the -0,6% regarding February 2013. The goods sand banks has recorded a decrease of -1,5% coming down at less than the 1,1 million one tons. The liquid bulk has totaled 285 thousand tons (- 16.8%) and the goods in container 180 thousand tons (- 9.1%). The rotabili have recorded an increment of +131.6% to 144 thousand tons.

"The traffic in the port of Ravenna - it has commented ravennate the Harbour Authority of the port of call - has marked in February, for the first time after many months, an light negative bending. Draft still of extremely contained percentages, graces above all to the incidence that, on the whole, they have, the Freeways of the Sea, which "they compensate" with increases to three figures, the loss of traffic that for other merceologiche types is being recorded. This confirmation that the choice made in 2012 to head at this type of traffic has been revealed wins and it now allows us of, so to speak, limiting the damages".

The harbour agency has found as, but, in general terms the picture that emerges "does not make that to place in evidence the impossibility to still send back the work of deepening of the backdrops previewed in the so-called Progettone. The work of escavo of the backdrops of the Candiano Channel - it has emphasized the harbour authority - must leave quickly, the works previewed in the Progettone cannot more being sent back. All the institutions, are to local level, than regional and central they must comprise that it is the moment to assume own responsibilities in order to safeguard our port of call, our enterprises, the job that these generate and, more in general terms, the future development of the more important industrial resource currently anticipates on this territory".

In the first period of two months of the 2014 port it has enlivened a total of beyond 3,8 million tons of goods, with an increase of +8.7% regarding 3,5 million tons in the January-February period last year. It disembarks have been pairs to 3,3 million tons (+8.2%) and it embarks to it to 0,5 million tons (+12.0%). The total volume of the goods sand banks is increased of +12.2% 2,6 million to tons. The liquid bulk is diminished of the -12,7% attesting to 633 thousand tons. In contraction (- 8.3%) also the volume of the goods containerized, that tons are piled to 343 thousand. The goods on trailer and rotabili has grown of +126.6% to 267 thousand tons.

The Harbour Authority of Ravenna has emphasized as the increment in more obvious absolute value is that relative one to the produced metalworkers passed from 778 thousand in the first period of two months of 2013 to 921 thousand tons, in increase of 18.4% and coming mainly from Taranto, Germany and Russia. Sure - it has explained the agency - the data it affects the fact that gives January 2014 the Arvedi steel mill of Cremona "has diverted" on Ravenna about a million tons of metalworkers who, previously, disembarked to the port of Venice.

The harbour agency has specified moreover that, regarding the trailer, on the lines of the Freeways of the Sea 7,041 are enlivened trailer against the 5,297 of January-February 2013 on the Ravenna-Catania, while for the Ravenna-Brindisi line the recorded pieces have been 2,026 against the 550 of January-February 2013. On the line of Grimaldi with Greece, inaugurated own to January 2014, the first two months have seen 410 pieces da/per Igoumenitsa and 1,383 da/per Patrasso. In total in the first two months 11,051 are enlivened trailer against the 6,022 of 2013 (+83.5%).