Confetra, clearly positive trend of the transport goods



The conjunctural note of the first semester of 2017 elaborated from Centro Studi Confetra (General Confederation Italiana of the Transports and the Logistics) interviewing a panel of enterprises between most representative of the several fields finds a clearly positive trend of the transport goods.

In particular, the relative data to the turnover are all of positive sign, evidencing a good recovery of the margins also for the sections of international shipments by sea (+5%) and aerial way (+4.9%) that in the last year they had shown suffering.

The express courier they continue to having the better performances, is for the number of deliveries (+6.5%) that for turnover (+6.0%), coherently with the constant increase of the e-commerce.

The recovery of the rail shipment slows down - specific the conjunctural note - that marks a +1.7% regarding +3.8% of first semester 2016.

Positive trend to double figure (+11.7%) for the aerial transport that is at this point very beyond the levels pre-crisis.

Also the road haulage, is national that international, it records a good course in traffics (respective +4.9% and +5.2%) and in turnover (respective +4.7% and +3.8%).

Discreet the results of the national couriers that are maintained in an increase around 3% are in terms of traffic that of turnover.

In the marine section the course is particularly shining in traffic ro-ro (+9.8%). The traffic of the container, which counted in number of containers from 20 ' (teu) enlivened, sees a generalized increase of +5.4%. The containerized trade of transhipment drops in the ports of pure transhipment (Gioia Tauro -8,8%) while in some ports of final destination the quota transhipment more is elevated regarding the past (for example to Genoa and La Spezia). The segment of the liquid bulk marks an increase of +2.0%, while that of the solid bulk records a decrease generalized in several ports (- 11.2%).

For international shipments it is recorded, besides the increase of the turnovers, a discreet recovery of the traffics, online with the increase of the international exchanges attested from the Istat in first semester 2017 regarding first semester 2016.

"In general terms - the president of Confetra Nereo Marcucci has commented - the data show as the resumption in the field is consolidating and that the crisis is at this point behind; also the expectations of the majority of the operators for the next semester are confirmed optimistic".