the port of Venice for the first time exceeds the threshold of means million container in a year



The port of Venice has for the first time exceeded in its history the threshold of enlivened means million of container over a year. Not draft of a solar year, as such volume of traffic is enlivened in the period june 2014 - May 2015. but it is since it during the last few years evidences the important development recorded from the harbour port of call in this segment of traffic.

The Harbour Authority of Venice has explained that last month a peak with an increase of +37.9% on May 2014 is totaled, increase percentage that carries to +24% the increase of the traffic container from the beginning of 2015.

The harbour agency has remembered that, attested on 380.000 teu in 2008 before the long world-wide and European crisis, the traffic container is come down little, 370,000 teu in 2009, in order to already at the end return to the levels pre-crisis of the same year. From that given a constant increment has shown, not touched from the course of the crisis, than current year (+32% from 2008 has carried it to the 500,000 record of teu).

An increase - it has found the authority - that only is amplified by the return of the line directed with Far East operated from Ocean3 from February a 2015 and increase - has emphasized the Harbour Authority - "in controtendenza regarding the crisis that is the best test of the structural character of the competitive advantage that Venice can offer to its Italian and European customers: the vicinity, the best one of Europe, to a rich market more and more projected on the markets of beyond Suez Asian and the African but also of the Mediterranean center-oriental and the Black Sea".

"A competitive advantage - it has still found the agency - than as soon as provvederà to eliminate the tie of nautical accessibility with the offshore-onshore harbour system, allows the sure recovery of a good part of that 1,8 million teu that the East North loses above all in favor of the concurrent portualità of the Sea of the North. A competitive advantage - it has specified the harbour authority - than Venice shares with the other ports of NAPA (North Adriatic Port Association) for which Venice covers the markets north-adriati western us, while Trieste, Koper and Rijeka cover that north-adriati us orientals, that they confirm stable a structural increase from 2008 to 2014 of +48% succeeding in to enliven all beyond together 1,8 million teu/year and that, in first quadrimestre 2015, show signs of increase pairs to a medium variation of +14% (regarding same period 2014)".