Last January the traffic of the goods in the port of Ravenna has grown of +14.2%

In January 2022 to still show a stunted recovery is state the segment of various goods: containerized traffic is piled to 164 thousand tons, with a decrease of -3.2% on January 2021 (-5.7% in terms of 20' containers handled), a increase of +1.5% on January 2020 and a decrease of -12.4% on January 2019; rolling stock traffic was modest progression of +3.0% having result equal to 115 thousand tons, volume that results in decrease of -2.9% and -11.2% respectively on the first month of 2020 and 2019.

On the other hand, dry goods increased sharply with a total of 1.55 million tons, with increases of +22.2% respectively, + 28.9% and +20.4% on the months of January 2021, 2020 and 2019. At it product segment metallurgical products have been attested to 583 thousand tons (respectively +22.2%, +11.1% and +17.2%), i raw minerals, artifacts and building materials to 388 thousand tons (+9.6%, +11.1% and +11.0%), agricultural products at 237 thousand tonnes (+1,877.0%, +373.8% and +48.7%), foodstuffs 181 thousand tons (-0.5%, +18.3% and +40.5%), fertilizers at 130 thousand tons (-21.5%, +11.9% and +7.1%) and fuels and minerals solids at 27 thousand tons (-52.3%, -8.5% and +46.4%).

Last January liquid bulk fell by -2.2% falling to 355 thousand tons, a volume that is however in growth of +0.2% on January 2020 and +20.0% on January 2019. The oil products alone totaled 174 thousand tons (-12.8%, -4.6% and -2.6%), foodstuffs 101 thousand tons (-6.6%, -19.6% and +61.7%) and chemical products 75 thousand tons (+50.6%, +64.6% and +37.8%).

Among the various types of goods handled last month by the port of Ravenna, the Port System Authority of the Sea Central-Northern Adriatic has announced that, within the framework of the grain traffic, over 125 thousand tons were represented from corn from the Ukrainian ports of Odessa and Nikolayev.

Referring to the escalation of the war event between Russia and Ukraine and remembering that for Italy and for the port of Ravenna both countries are important trading partners, the institution port specified that in 2021 the traffic of the port of Ravenna with the Black Sea countries has reached 4.3 million tonnes (16% of the port's total traffic), of which three million tons (about 11% of the total traffic of the port) with Ukraine and 775 thousand tons (about 3% of traffic overall) with Russia. More generally, last year the traffic of the port of Ravenna to / from the Countries of the Black Sea has involved two million tons of raw materials for the ceramics of the District of Sassuolo, 1.3 million tons of agri-food products (cereals, vegetable oils, foodstuffs and feed), about 250 thousand tons of fertilizers and about 140 thousand tons of mineral fuels. In 2021 the number of touches of ships to/from the Black Sea amounted to 446 (16.5% of total touches in the port of Ravenna), of which 200 ships they concern trade with Ukraine and 162 ships with Russia.

Finally, the AdSP, based on the first estimates for the month of February, anticipated that the overall handling in the port of Ravenna in the first two months of 2022 should exceed 4.4 million tons, up about +19% compared to the same period of 2021 and over +13.5% compared to the first two months of 2019.