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In the second half of 2019, freight traffic in the port of Palermo decreased by -12.1%
At Termini Imerese, the decline was -62.8%
February 6, 2020
Overall, in the miscellaneous freight segment alone, the total goods was 5.35 million tonnes (-7.4%), 5.17 million tonnes of rolling stock (-7.3%) and 176 thousand tonnes of container goods (-10.8%) made with a 14,000 teu (-11.5%). In liquid bulk sector, traffic was at 427 thousand tonnes, or 12.8%, of which 413 thousand tonnes of products oil refinery (up 9.0%). Solid bulks totalled 15 thousand tons (-59.0%).
In the passenger sector, ferries handled 1.34 million people (3.8%), local maritime services 109 thousand (-4,0%) cruise ships 501,000 passengers (-13.3%), of which 83,000 on disembark/boarding (up 7.3%) 418 thousand in transit (-16.4%).
The port of Termini Imerese, also administered by the Port System Authority of the Sea of Sicily Western, filed 2019 with a sharp reduction in the -41.6% of the traffic in goods produced in particular in the second half of the year (-62.8%). In the whole of 2019, the airport 644 thousand tonnes of loads compared to 1.19 million tonnes of tonnes in the previous year. The total volume of loads 400,000 tonnes (-59.1) and that of the solid bulks of 293 thousand tonnes (up 40.1%). At Imerese Terms on ferry traffic totaled 55,000 passengers, or 3.7%.
In the second half of 2019 alone, the port of Palermo 2.69 million tonnes of goods compared to 3.06 million tonnes million in the same period of the previous year. The goods 1.57 million tonnes (-20.4%) And boarding at 1.12 million tonnes, or 3.0%. During the period July-December the ferry passengers were 912 thousand (up 8.2%) and cruisers 241 thousand (-17.0%).
In the second half of 2019, the traffic of goods at Termini Imerese was 212 thousand tons (-62.8%), of which 99,000 landing (-71.6%) and 113 thousand at boarding. (-49,1%).
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