Last year the traffic goods in the port of Ravenna has grown of +8.8%



Last year the port of Ravenna has enlivened almost 24,5 million tons of goods, with a progression of +8.8% regarding 2013. The cargos to the disembarkation are piled to 20,4 million tons (+6.8%) and that to the boarding to 4,0 million tons (+20.1%).

The Harbour Authority has announced that in 2014 the very positive one it has been the traffic of goods sand banks (+9.4%), with 1,4 million tons in more regarding the year precedence, and a substantial stability in handling of liquid bulk (+0.2% has been recorded). Constant also several the positive trend of the goods, in particular of those on rotabili that have grown of +54.8% passing from less than 1,2 million 1,8 million to tons. Between the goods sand banks the increment in absolute values more meaningful has been about to the produced metalworkers, in particular coils, passed from 4,4 5,4 million to tons, with an increase of +21.0%. To signal - it has specified the agency - the fort increase of the boarded produced ones, passed from 250 to 627 thousand and directed mostly in the USA and the United Kingdom. Other important increase, pairs almost 200 thousand tons, is for alimentary commodities (+8.3%) and is from attributing itself to the coming sfarinati ones from Argentina and the USA. Bond also the result of the passed agricultural produced ones from 1,5 to 1,7 million tons (+12.6%) thanks to quantitative of wheat (940 thousand the tons) perlopiù coming from the USA, Bulgaria and Canada, of corn (470 thousand tons) imported above all from Ukraine and of I rise and pellet, first in arrival from Ukraine and Russia, according to from Canada and the USA. In increase also the composts that are piled to beyond 1,5 million tons (+5.5%). Down the minerals crudes oil and materials from construction (- 3.5%) because of the decrease of the import of gravel for the construction industry. In increase the raw materials for ceramics (+1.9%), and in particular clay, feldspar, kaolin and nefelina (beyond altogether 3,4 million tons).

In the field of the liquid bulk an increase of alimentary commodities (+7.7%) graces to a consisting increase of import of oils and the fat people is recorded vegetables. Positive the relative data to produced oil (+4.9%), while it has been a decrease of those chemical (- 15.7%).

In light bending the traffic container, that it has been pairs to 222.548 teu (- 1.9%). In particular - it has explained the harbour authority - the decrease is from entirely attributing to container empty (- 7.1% and pairs to 4.348 teu), while for the full loads a substantial stability is found.

Regarding the trailer, in total in the 2014 76,010 units against the 54,359 of 2013 are enlivened, with an increase of +39.8%. In particular on the Ravenna-Catania line 47,377 are enlivened trailer regarding the 42,542 last year, for the Ravenna-Brindisi line the recorded pieces have been 12,967 against the 10,678 of 2013, while on the line of Grimaldi with the Greece, inaugurated to January, I have been counted 4,528 pieces da/per Igoumenitsa and 9,856 da/per Patrasso. The result - it has found the harbour agency - would have been still better if the line were not interrupted to september because of the incident happened in Greece to another Grimaldi ferry that has been substitute own with the ship employed to Ravenna. The line, however, is destined to being reactivated to February with the employment of new means.

Positive the result also for the traffic of new cars that with 26.800 disembarked pieces have recorded a positive balance of 1.865 pieces (+7.5%).

"I cannot - the president of the Harbour Authority of Ravenna has commented, Galliano Di Marco - than to be satisfied of the important turned out recorded in 2014 and would have been also better if December had not been a month, conjuncturally, negative. We have earned a +8.8% of total traffic in the year (than, added to 5% of 2013, door to an increase of 14% about in the past couple of years), reaching the better result from 2009, year from which also to Ravenna the first effects of a deep economic crisis still in course have been felt".

"The port of Ravenna - it has added Of Marco - confirmation to be itself the first port of the Adriatic, to clearly of the oil produced ones. It is a meaningful data that, I consider, you reward the made job and all the efforts that the harbour community is completing in order not to lose important quotas traffic in spite of some heavy infrastructural limits of the port of call. It is but a data also on which we must reflect from the moment that 2015 are without a doubt a very difficult year having the port, in absence of the start of the work of the Progettone, almost reached own saturation. We must, as I have already said in many occasions, but I will not never get tired to repeat it, to as soon as possible start the participations previewed in the Progettone. Only thanks to the deepening of the backdrops and to the connected realization of the participations of consolidation of the nets street and railway to service of the port, that harbour strategic design that it will put in safety our port of call and all compirà in its complex the connected activities to it: currently beyond job 10.000 places that will be able to grow at least 3,000 units, in next the 5-6 years".