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The conjunctural note of first semester 2018 of Confetra signals a slow down of the increase in all the transport modalities
Decided braked of the aerial transport after a period of strong expansion. Arrest of the resumption of the rail shipment
October 3, 2018
The Conjunctural Note of first semester 2018 elaborated from Centro Studi of the Confetra (General Confederation Italiana of the Transports and the Logistics) signals a slow down of the increase that has involved all the transport modalities and that - specific the relationship - it has been emphasized with the succession of the months.
The sections that less have suffered than this conjuncture have been that street (+3.5% in groupage regarding the first semester of 2017 and +4.8% in international to loaded suit) and that corrieristico (+2.3% in the national deliveries and a +5.5% in those international ones). It brakes instead the aerial transport that has closed the semester with a +0.7% interrupting a period of strong expansion (2013-2017: +32.5%). In land negative railway data (- 0.8%) that it reveals an arrest of the resumption left in 2013.
Moreover the international shipments slow down: the air traffic makes to mark an increase of +1.1% in amount and +1.1% in turnover and the marine traffic of +2.1% in stable amount and in turnover. Online with the data of the street passes, the international shipments via road show an increase of +3.9% in amount and +2.7% in turnover.
Also in the marine section a slow down regarding the first six months of 2017 is recorded: the traffic of the containers ago to mark a +3.1%, ro-ro +4.7% and the liquid bulk a +1.7% (lack the data Augusta and Cagliari). The solid bulk continues to mark a data negative (- 0.3%) that moreover, confronted with the contraction of data -11,2% of first semester 2017 - specific slightly the relationship of Centro Studi Confetra - an improvement of the trend denotes. Data negative is that of the traffic transhipment (- 11.6%) that, in spite of the increase of the ports not to majority vocation as Genoa (+17.2%) and Trieste (+9.7%), Gioia Tauro also suffers of the negative performances of the two ports transhipment (- 8.3%) and Cagliari (- 61.8%).
Relatively to the turnover, solo the road haulage marks a recovery online with that of the traffic, while the international shipments, in particular those aerial and marine, they continue to suffer.
The Conjunctural Note of the Confederation evidences that the expectations of traffic for second half of the year 2018 are optimistic for beyond forty percent (41.5%) of interviewed (the investigation are carried out interviewing a panel of hundred of enterprises between most representative of the several fields) that estimates an increase, while 58.5% estimate a stable trend and nobody previews traffics down.
"The total increase slows down, hung spreading protectionism and the outcome of the Brexit - it has commented the èresidente of Confetra, Nereo Marcucci - but the entrepreneurs attends continues to have confidence and - it has remembered - they will be confronted also on this topic the public assembly Confetra who will hold on 17 October near the Temple of Adrian to Rome with the presence of the minister of Infrastructures and the Transports, Danilo Toninelli. From this year our assembly transforms in Confetra Greenbone own for giving a space of true argument to our community".
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