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In 2021, the ports of Messina, Milazzo, Reggio Calabria and Villa San Giovanni handled 30 million tons of goods
Similar volume was handled in 2019
February 11, 2022
The AdSP has announced that in 2021 the only traffic of goods miscellaneous, equal to over 14 million tons of cargoes for the almost all of them consisting of rolling stock, recorded a increase of +25% on the previous year and of almost +17% compared to the 2019. Last year the number of rolling stock transported exceeded two million units compared to 1.65 million in 2020 and 1.75 million in 2019.
Solid bulk goods are also on the rise, in particular semi-finished and finished steel products, which with a total of 380 thousand tons have marked increases of over +90% compared to 2019 and 2020 data. In slight decline, however, petroleum products amounted to about 15.2 million tons with a reduction of about -15% compared to the figure of 2019.
As far as passenger traffic is concerned, the port authority has highlighted that the health emergency for the coronavirus pandemic led to a sharp reduction in traffic in 2020, the result of the long period of lockdown and restrictions on moving between the regions, with a number of passengers transported increased by 22.5 about 2019 million units to 13.7 million in the year subsequently, while in 2021 it amounted to 16.5 million passengers, with an increase of about +20% on 2020 but with a decrease of about -25% compared to 2019. Last year the cruise traffic was about 160 thousand passengers compared to 20 thousand in 2020 and 423 thousand in 2019. The AdSP has announced that, in the latter sector, 217 are expected in 2022 cruise ship stopovers, compared to 170 in 2019, with a number expected passengers equal to about 605 thousand units.
"The Covid-19 emergency - commented the president of the AdSP, Mario Mega - in 2020 marked important reductions in passenger traffic in our ports that fortunately begin to be reabsorbed with trends that allow a return to be predicted under pre-crisis conditions by this year. No problem instead for freight traffic on rolling stock, constantly growing, which confirms the efficiency of a ferry system on the Strait and for the Aeolian Islands which, despite needing important actions to increase the quality of services to users, however, it manages to ensure high operational performance».
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The AdSP has announced that in 2021 the only traffic of goods miscellaneous, equal to over 14 million tons of cargoes for the almost all of them consisting of rolling stock, recorded a increase of +25% on the previous year and of almost +17% compared to the 2019. Last year the number of rolling stock transported exceeded two million units compared to 1.65 million in 2020 and 1.75 million in 2019.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
