2017 positive for the transport goods in Italy



In the 2017 transport goods in Italy it has turned out in increase showing generalized increments is in terms of traffic that of turnover regarding the year precedence that already it had made to record given positive. The positive trend is evidenced by Conjunctural Note 2017 elaborated from Centro Studi of the General Confederation Italiana of the Transports and the Logistics (Confetra) interviewing a panel of hundred of enterprises between most representative of the several fields.

The specific relationship that the only data negatives regard the traffic of transhipment in the Italian ports (- total 10.0%) because of the negative performances of the two ports of call also transhipment of Gioia Tauro (- 12.4%) and Cagliari (- 38.7%), let alone the traffic of the solid bulk (- 4.7%) because of the data negatives of the port of Taranto for the crisis of the Ilva.

The document emphasizes the meaningful resumption of national traffic (+6.1% of the street carriers to loaded suit and +3.5% with the transport to collettame) that they denote a resumption of the domestic demand, so as analyzed from the Bank of Italy. Moreover, coherently with the data of the transits in street passes (+7.4%) the expansion of international street traffics (+6.5% in amount and +6.0% in turnover is recorded).

The increase of express courier (+6.9% in amount and +6.0% in turnover continues also), increase - specific the Centro Studi - sure hauled from the constant performances of the e-commerce whom in 2017 it has seen to grow of 10% the web shopper Italian and of 17% the purchases from Italian sites. More content the increment of deliveries (+3.5%) and turnover (+1.7%) of the national couriers.

Good also the increment of aerial cargo (+10% in transported tons, +5.0% in shipment number and +6.0% in turnover) that it updates its historical maximums exceeding million tons transported.

Worthy of note the consisting increase of international shipments where, besides already cited air traffic, they grow also road (+4.2% in amount and +5% in turnover) and marine traffic (+4.4% in amount and +5.5% in turnover) showing an acceleration regarding the first part of the year placed side by side to a constant increase of the margins.

The conjunctural relationship finds that in this context of strong expansions the data of the railway cargo, although remains positive in the territory, shows a slow down regarding the semiannual data (from +1.7% of the first semester to +1.5% anniversary in terms of treni/km).

In the marine section to the decrease in the solid bulk and the transhipment an sensitive expansion of traffic ro-ro (+8.1%) and of the containerized trade of final destination (+7.4% comes abreast).

The precise relationship moreover that the found positive course in the survey finds confirmation in the decrease of mean times of proceeds (77,7 days against the 79,4 of 2016) and in that of the future expectations of the interviewed ones that for almost the totality they are of traffics in increase.

"On the whole - the president of Confetra has commented, Nereo Marcucci - the data of the field confirm that our Country has coupled solid the economic resumption, with a phase of acceleration that is begun in the second half of the year of the year".