the port of Bari has closed the first semester with a traffic of 3,0 million tons of goods (+19.2%)



The port of Bari has closed the first semester of 2016 with a traffic of 3,0 million tons of goods, with an increase of +19.2% regarding 2,5 million tons in the first half last year. The traffic in import has been pairs almost 2,0 million tons (+17.1%) and that in export to 1,0 million tons (+23.5%).

The total volume of the solid bulk has been of beyond 1,3 million tons (+22.6%). The Harbour Authority of the apulian port of call has announced that the field always is hauled by the cereals, with a +22.5%, but optimal results have marked also the chemicals ones and fertilizers (+21.4%), that they carry the total of the semester to about 58.000 tons, and those metalworkers (+91.5%), that 31,000 tons have touched quota.

The traffic of the goods several has been pairs to about 1,7 million tons, with an increment of determined +16.7% from the increase of traffic ro-ro (+7.6%) but above all of the container that is increased of +42.0% and has been pairs to 39.372 teu. The harbour agency has specified as the full percentage of container has been pairs to about 81.3% while for how much the traffic concerns the destination has turned out almost balanced with a destined percentage of container to the export pairs to 48.4% and to the remaining import pairs to 51.6%.

In the first six months of this year the number of the passengers of the ferries is increased of about +6.8% going up to 360 thousand people, increase produced from the increase of about +26.2% of the traffic with Albania while that with Greece has remained substantially stable.

In the field of the cruises the traffic has been of 144 thousand fleeting (+35.3%), of which about 25.0% they have used the port of Bari as home port having begun and finishing to you the cruise to you.

"2016 - the extraordinary commissioner of the Harbour Authority of the East has commented, Francesco Mariani - a year of great increase for the port of Bari is being demonstrated with the confirmation of trends than more positive in all the segments of traffic. By now - it has evidenced Marian - the port of Bari is a full stop of the trasportistico system of southern Europe with its connections feeder, regular and very structured, for Gioia Tauro, Pireo and Damietta/Port Said that allow with the companies of the apulian and lucani territories of being able to make to reach own goods in any part of the world with contained rapidity and costs. The strong resumption of the traffic fleeting and goods towards Albania, then, confirmation once again that our engagement in support of the traffic ro-ro more than was justified and that the goods will continue to move on rotabili, still for many years, towards those Countries with all which this will have to mean in order to the policies of management and increase of the harbour and retroportuali infrastructures that we will have to put in field. The data of increase on the crocieristico segment - it has continued Marian - gives back to the port of Bari the role that also deserves in the regional panorama in the difficulties of a market that attends with anxiety to know the infrastructural choices in order to resolve the problematic one of the limitations to the great ships to Venice".

Remembering that in the next weeks the reform of the intentional portualità from the government with the scope will operatively go to support the resumption of national the logistic system, Marian it has emphasized that "the port of Bari is ready to carry out that role guides in the Authority of Harbour System of the Southern Adriatic that is assigned to them".