Independent journal on economy and transport policy
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Last May the traffic of the container in the port of Genoa has grown of +11.2%
the increment of the total traffic of the goods has been of +14.7%
July 4, 2014
the Harbour Authority of Genoa has announced that last month the traffic of the container enlivened from the port of from Liguria chief town has recorded an increment of +11.2% being is pairs to 185.803 teu regarding 167.016 totaled in the May 2013 (month in which the traffic was dropped of the -8,3%).
In the first five months of the 2014 traffic is piled to 864.296 teu, with a progression of +4.9% regarding 824.043 teu in the period January-May last year. "If in the course of the second half it continues the waited for trend - it has found the Harbour Authority - 2014 could be the year of the record for the goods containerized".
the harbour agency has specified that the increase recorded in the first five months of 2014, besides the container, regards great part of the merceologici fields: in particular, the liquid bulk has totaled a +19% in the progressive data and a +16.9% in the single month of May; moreover last month the mineral oils are increased of +27.1%.
the increment of the general total of the traffic of the goods in the single month of May 2014 has been of +14.7%, while the progressive data is pairs to +1.9%. Decrease, instead, in the field fleeting where - it has explained the agency - it is the ferries that the cruises suffer of a temporary slow down with a -8,6% on the progressive one.
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