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Freight traffic in the port of Livorno fell by -15.0% in the third quarter
In Piombino, 1.6 million tonnes of cargo (-7.5%) were moveded
December 23, 2020
In the port of Livorno alone, traffic amounted to 8.0 million tonnes (-15.0%). In the field of miscellaneous goods, the total was 6.2 million tonnes (-10.9%), of which almost 3.9 million tonnes of rolling stock (-10.1%), over 1.9 million tonnes million tonnes of containerised goods (-13.7%) Made with a handling of containers equal to 176 thousand teu (-10.9%) And 428,000 tons of conventional goods (-13.7%). More accentuated the decline in solid bulk, which stood at a 176,000 tons (-13.6%), of which 64,000 tons of cereals (+58.2%), 66,000 tons of minerals, cements and kicks (-32.5%), 8,000 tons of metallurgical products (+20.3%), 6,000 tons chemicals (-64.3%), 5,000 tons of carbon and lignites (-7,1%) and 27,000 tons of other dry bulk (-25.0%). More the decline in liquid bulk that totalled the amount of liquid bulk 1.6 million tonnes (-28.0%), including 733,000 tonnes of crude oil (-28.2%), 540,000 tons of petroleum products refined products (-41.8%), 166,000 tons of chemicals (+8.2%), 73,000 tonnes of gaseous, liquefied or tablets and natural gas (+4.0%) and 88,000 tons of other liquid loads (+78.8%).
In the third quarter of 2020, cruise traffic in the port has reset due to the effects of the health crisis for Covid-19, while in the same period of 2019 was 342,000 cruise workers. The traffic of ferry passengers, on the other hand, amounted to more than 1.1 million people, with a reduction of -24.5% on the third quarter of last year.
In the third quarter of this year the port of Piombino 1.6 million tonnes of goods (-7.5%), while the traffic in the Elban ports of Portoferraio, Rio Marina and Cavo is 1.1 million tonnes (+1.5%).
In the first nine months of 2020, ports managed by the port system of the North Tyrrhenian Sea have moved a total of 28.4 million tonnes of goods, with a decrease in -17.8% over the period January-September last year. In the only port of Livorno the total was 23.6 million tonnes (-16.1%), including 10.2 million tonnes of rolling stock (-16.1%), 6.3 million tonnes of goods in containers (-11.5%) with a handling of containers equal to 544 thousand teu (-10.2%), 1.3 million tonnes of conventional goods (+3.8%), 5.3 million tonnes of liquid bulk (-25.0%) and 567,000 tonnes of solid bulk (-6.5%).
In the first nine months of this year in Piombino, 3.0 million tonnes of goods (-26.6%), of which 1.9 million tonnes were million tonnes of rolling stock (-24.4%), 1.1 million tonnes of tons of dry bulk (-29.7%), 55 thousand tons of bulk liquid (-7.3%) and 2,000 tons of conventional goods (-94.2%). In Elba ports, total traffic was 1.8 million tonnes of rolling stock (-22.6%).
In the period January-September 2020, passengers of the ferries in the ports of the North Tyrrhenian Sea were 5.3 million (-32.2%), of which 1.4 million in Livorno (-40.8%), 2.0 million in Piombino (-28.8%) and 1.9 million at elba island airports (-27,9%). In addition, in the entire port system, cruise (-97.3%).
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