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In the first three months of the 2017 traffic of the goods in the port of Palermo it has grown of +5.9%
Increase of the several goods and decrease of the bulk
May 31, 2017
In the first trimester of this year the traffic of the goods enlivened from the port of Palermo has grown of +5.9% to 1,55 million tons regarding 1,47 million tons enlivened in the first three months of 2016. The cargos to the disembarkation are piled to 991 thousand tons (- 0.7%) and those to the boarding to 563 thousand tons (+19.9%).
Altogether the single traffic of the goods several has been attested 1,47 million to tons (+17.2%), of which 1,42 million tons of cargos ro-ro (+15.3%) and 46 thousand containerized tons of goods (+145.1%).
In the field of the liquid bulk producing are enlivened 77 thousand refined tons of oil, with a decrease of the -58,3% on the first trimester last year, while in the section of the bulk sand banks the total has been of 5 thousand tons (- 80.5%), for almost the totality cereals.
In the first three months of the 2017 Sicilian port it has recorded a traffic of the passengers of 238 thousand unit (- 4.9%). The crocieristi have been 80 thousand (- 11.7%), of which 11 thousand as home port (- 8.6%) and 70 thousand in transit (- 12.1%), and the passengers of the ferries 149 thousand (- 1.7%).
In the first trimester of this year the neighbor port of Termini Imerese has enlivened 75 thousand tons of goods (+15.1%), of which 40 thousand tons of rotabili (+47.2%) and 35 thousand tons of solid bulk (- 7.6%).
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In the first trimester of this year the traffic of the goods enlivened from the port of Palermo has grown of +5.9% to 1,55 million tons regarding 1,47 million tons enlivened in the first three months of 2016. The cargos to the disembarkation are piled to 991 thousand tons (- 0.7%) and those to the boarding to 563 thousand tons (+19.9%).
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
