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Last year freight traffic in the port of La Spezia decreased by -15.6%
Containers amounted to 1.17 million teu (-16.7%)
February 17, 2021
Last year, freight traffic in the port of La Spezia decreased by -15.6% to 13.4 million tonnes compared to 15.9 million tonnes moveded in 2019, reduction that occurred mainly in the first three quarters of 2020 with falls of -13.4%, -26.6% and -11.7% on the corresponding periods of 2019, a contraction that in the last quarter of 2020 during which the about 3.3 million tons of cargoes have been moveded (-9,4%).
Throughout 2020, the traffic of miscellaneous goods was 11.1 million tonnes (-17.0%), with only one traffic containerised containerised which amounted to 1.17 million teu (-16.7%), of which 588,000 on landing (-16.5%) and 585,000 at boarding (-16.9%), with import-export traffic totaling 1.10 million teu (-13.4%) and a transhipment traffic of 69,000 teu (-48,3%). The only La Spezia Container Terminal (LSCT) of the Contship Italia group moveded 1.08 million teu (-17.0%), while the Gulf Terminal of the Tarros Group has moved 93,000 (-11.7%). In the liquid bulk sector, traffic 2.2 million tonnes (+3.3%) and in that of the dry bulk at 101,000 tons (-72.7%). Traffic cruise ship was 54,000 passengers (-91.3%).
In the fourth quarter of last year alone, traffic goods was 2.9 million teu (-9.8%), with a container traffic of 332,000 teu (-3.0%), container traffic liquid bulk of 401,000 tons (+13.3%) and the traffic of the solid bulk of 3,000 tons (-95.9%).
In the whole of 2020 the port of Marina di Carrara, also administered by the Port System Authority of the Ligurian Sea 2.6 million tonnes of goods (-12.3%), of which 2.5 million tonnes of miscellaneous goods (+6.8%), including 1.3 million tonnes of containerised cargoes (+12.1%), 776,000 rolling stock (+11.9%) and 443,000 tons of goods (-11.9%), and 147,000 tons of solid bulk (-78,0%).
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Last year, freight traffic in the port of La Spezia decreased by -15.6% to 13.4 million tonnes compared to 15.9 million tonnes moveded in 2019, reduction that occurred mainly in the first three quarters of 2020 with falls of -13.4%, -26.6% and -11.7% on the corresponding periods of 2019, a contraction that in the last quarter of 2020 during which the about 3.3 million tons of cargoes have been moveded (-9,4%).
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