Independent journal on economy and transport policy
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In the second quarter of 2021 alone, freight traffic in the port of Palermo grew by +12.8%
In the first half of this year the increase was +4.8%
August 11, 2021
In the second quarter of 2021 alone, traffic was of 1.89 million tons compared to 1.67 million tons in the corresponding period of last year, with a traffic of landing loads amounting to 1.11 million tonnes (+14.4%) and loading loads that took place attested to 777 thousand tons (+10.5%). In the field of miscellaneous goods the total was 1.80 million tons (+10.7%), of which 1.76 million tonnes of rolling stock (+11.1%) and 37 thousand tons of goods in containers (-6.5%). Accentuated the increase in volumes of liquid bulk and solid bulk which are results of 63 thousand tons (+46.0%) and 25 thousand respectively tonnes (+412.0%). Passenger traffic was a total of 224 thousand people (+170.2%), including 20 thousand passengers carried by scheduled short-haul services (+100.4%), 189 thousand transported by ferries (+159.0%) and 15 thousand cruise passengers, traffic - the latter - that in the period April-June of 2020 was absent due to the pandemic.
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