In January, slight growth in the traffic of goods in the port of Genoa. More accentuated in Savona-Going



Last January the ports of Genoa and Savona-I go Ligure managed by the Port System Authority of the Western Ligurian Sea handled a total of 5.38 million tonnes of cargo, an increase of 4.7% percent on January 2021 and a flexing -4.2% percent on January 2020 when the negative effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on port activities had not yet been manifested. If in January 2022 the sole port of the capital suffered a slight increase in the volumes handled in January 2021 and a sharp decline in those totaled in January 2020, the port of Savona-I am going to have marked heightened increases in respect of the capital. to both corresponding months of the previous two years.

In particular, last January the port of Genoa handled a total of 4.13 million tons of cargoes, with growth of 1.4% percent on January 2021 and a decrease of -9.0% percent on January 2020. In the goods sector alone, traffic was 2.74 million tonnes (+ 5.4% and -2.3%% respectively), of which 1.98 million tonnes of containerized goods (+ 4.7% and -4.6%) carried out with an handling of containers equal to 204mila teu (-1.7% and -6.5%) and 759mila tons of conventional goods (+ 7.5% and 4.1%). If mineral oils in the bulk of bulk liquid bulk were 1.05 million tonnes (-12.0% and -25.3%), the other liquid loads showed a sharp increase with 72mila tonnes handled in the bulk. (+ 64.3% and 51.5%), of which 46mila tonnes of chemical products (+ 50.1% and 35.2%) and 26mila tonnes of vegetable oils and wine (+ 97.8% and 91.3%). In sensitive growth also the solid bulk bulk with 67mila tonnes handled in the commercial segment (+ 13.6% and +105,1%) and 160mila tonnes in the industrial segment (+ 31.6% and 5.6%).

In the recovery, in Genoa, the port traffic of passengers even though still far below the pre-pandemic levels : last January the cruises were 15mila (+ 1,067.1% and -65.4%) and the passengers of the ferries 46mila (+ 25.4% and -27.5%).

Last January the port of Savona-I'm going Ligure handled 1.25 million tons of cargo, in 16.9% and 15.6% increments on January 2021 and January 2020, respectively. In the field of goods miscellaneous data was 479mila tonnes (+ 13.8% and 17.2%), including 206mila tonnes of cargo in containers (+ 34.6% and +285,6%) totaled with an handling of containers equal to 17mila teu (+ 17.4% + 209.5%), 210mila tonnes of rotatable (-8.2% and -31.2%), 26mila tonnes of fruit (+ 26.4% and -17.5%), 18mila tonnes of steels (+ 48.9% and +104,5%) and 18mila tonnes of forest products (+ 219.2% and +104,0%). Also consisting of the increase in liquid bulk reinfuses attested to 553mila tonnes (+ 13.4% and 11.0%), of which 521mila tonnes of crude oil (+ 13.6% and 10.8%), 18mila tonnes of refined petroleum products (-29.4% and -11.1%) and 14mila tons of other liquid loads (+ 356.1% and 85.8%). Also decided on the rise in dry bulk with a total of 216mila tonnes (+ 35.7% and 24.9%), of which 80mila tonnes of coal (-5.6% and 71.1%) and 137mila tonnes of other solid bulk bulk (+ 81.8% and 7.9%).

In January 2022 the cruise traffic in Savona, which in January 2021 was firm, resulted in 3mila passengers, with a decrease of -88.9% percent on January 2020.