In November freight traffic in the port of Genoa fell by -10.6%, while in Savona

In the port of Genoa alone, total traffic was 3.56 million tonnes (-10.6%). The miscellaneous goods amounted to 2.71 million tonnes (-1.9%), of which 1.90 million tonnes tons of goods in containers (-0.3%) made with a handling of containers equal to 208,000 teu (+4.2%) and 815,000 tonnes of conventional goods (-5.6%). In the bulk sector the trade in mineral oils was 602,000 tonnes (-33.6%), that of chemicals of 35,000 tonnes (-26.0%) and that of vegetable oils and wine of 14 thousand tonnes (-26.7%). Bulk traffic is falling sharply solid in the commercial sector that totalled 33,000 tons (-33.6%), while in the industrial sector the reduction was less accentuated having been moved 112 thousand tons (-4,8%). The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic continue to have in addition, a very significant negative impact on the traffic of passengers who last month was 28,000 people (-84.5%), of which 5,000 cruise workers (-96.3%) and 23,000 passengers of the ferries (-53.0%).

Last month in Savona - Vado Ligure traffic total at 1.32 million tonnes, with an increase in the number of +9.0% on November 2019 as a result of the increase of +35.6% of the various goods that have risen to 604 thousand tons thanks to the increases in containerised freight volumes (206,000 tonnes, +346.8%), forest products (19,000 tons, +111.0%) and fruit (30,000 tons, +12.6%) that offset the declines in traffic rolling stock (346,000 tons, -3.1%) and steels (3,000 tons, -58,9%). In the liquid bulk segment, 539,000 tons (-5.0%), of which 512,000 tons of crude oil (-3.0%), 20,000 refined petroleum products (-39.4%) and 6,000 of other liquid loads (+8.8%). Dry bulk has totaled 180,000 tons (-10.6%), including 85,000 tons coal (+23.6%), 31,000 cereals and oilseeds (-59.0%), 14,000 minerals (-18.0%) and 49,000 of other solid bulk (+28.5%). Passenger traffic was composed of less than 2,000 cruise workers (-96.3%) and 201 ferry passengers (-91,6%).

In the first eleven months of this year the two Ligurian ports 53.32 million tonnes of goods, with a decrease of -15.0% over the corresponding period of 2019, of which 41.09 million tons moveded from the port of Genoa (-16,6%) and 12.17 million tons from the port of Savona - Vado Ligurian (-8.8%). At the two airports the cruise-goers were a total of 204,000 (-89.6%) and ferry passengers 1.31 million (-46.6%).