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In the third trimester the traffic of the goods in the ports of Naples and Salerno have increased of +9.3% and +0.2%
Respectively handled 4.9 million and 3.5 million tons
November 22, 2021
The port of Naples alone closed the third quarter of 2021 with a total traffic of 4.89 million tons of goods (+9,3%). Miscellaneous goods alone amounted to 3.00 million tons (+3.0%), of which 1,65 million tons of goods containerized (+0.5%) made with a handling of containers pairs to 160 thousand teu (+6.0%) and 1,35 million tons of rolling stock (+0.5%). In the liquid bulk sector the traffic is state of 1,55 million tons (+18.5%), including 1,24 million of tons of refined petroleum products (+23.9%), 248 thousand tonnes of oil gaseous, liquefied or compressed products, and natural gas (+1.8%) and 67 thousand tons of other liquid bulk (-2,1%). The rise in solid bulk is more consistent attested to 331 thousand tons (+34.5%), of which 157 thousand tons of metallurgical products, iron ores and non-minerals and metals ferrous (+125.3%), 91 thousand tons of cereals (-12.1%) and 83 thousand tons of other dry bulk (+13.4%).
Comparing the volume of traffic handled by the port of Naples in the third quarter of 2021 with the one enlivened in the same pre-pandemic period of year 2019 the total volume of goods decreased by -0.7%, with increases in liquid bulk (+7.6%) and solid (+27.3%) and decreases in containerized cargoes (-4.3%) and rolling stock (-9.3%).
In the third quarter of 2021 in the port of Salerno the traffic is was 3.54 million tonnes globally, with a slight growth of +0.2% on the third quarter of 2020. To limit the increase in traffic has been the decrease of -8.5% of loads ro-ro which amounted to 2.19 million tonnes. Increasingly instead, both containerized goods that amounted to 1.26 million tons (+15.7%) and have been totaled with a handling of containers pairs to 103 thousand teu (+18.1%) both the solid bulk that amounted to 85 thousand tons (+80.7%).
Compared to the traffic handled in the third quarter of 2019, the total traffic enlivened by the port of Salerno in the third quarter of this year is up by +4.5%, with increases in rolling stock (+4.1%) in container goods (+1.0%) and of dry bulk (+161.0%).
As for cruise traffic that in the summer of last year was stopped due to the Covid-19 pandemic, in the period July-September of this year in Naples was 104 thousand passengers and in Salerno of almost 9 thousand passengers. Also in Naples passenger traffic on scheduled maritime services is state of 2.18 million units (+27.5% on the third quarter of 2020).
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The port of Naples alone closed the third quarter of 2021 with a total traffic of 4.89 million tons of goods (+9,3%). Miscellaneous goods alone amounted to 3.00 million tons (+3.0%), of which 1,65 million tons of goods containerized (+0.5%) made with a handling of containers pairs to 160 thousand teu (+6.0%) and 1,35 million tons of rolling stock (+0.5%). In the liquid bulk sector the traffic is state of 1,55 million tons (+18.5%), including 1,24 million of tons of refined petroleum products (+23.9%), 248 thousand tonnes of oil gaseous, liquefied or compressed products, and natural gas (+1.8%) and 67 thousand tons of other liquid bulk (-2,1%). The rise in solid bulk is more consistent attested to 331 thousand tons (+34.5%), of which 157 thousand tons of metallurgical products, iron ores and non-minerals and metals ferrous (+125.3%), 91 thousand tons of cereals (-12.1%) and 83 thousand tons of other dry bulk (+13.4%).
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
