In the first three months of 2022 the traffic in goods in the port of Venice increased by 15.1% percent



In the first quarter of 2022 the port of Venice handled 6.37 million tons of cargo, an increase of 15.1% percent in the first three months of last year, a 9.8% percent increase in the first quarter of 2020 when the stir had begun to record the negative impact of the coronavirus pandemic and a -1.6% decline in the first quarter of 2019 of the pre-pandemic year of 2019. The Port System Authority of the Northern Adriatic Sea found that the growth marked in the first quarter of this year shows that the port has not yet resonated with the consequences of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict that erupted at the end of the last month of February.

In the first three months of 2022, miscellaneous goods amounted to 2.45 million tonnes, volume showing increases of 12.8% and 2.8% respectively on the same periods of 2021 and 2020, while it was analogous to the eventful volume in the first quarter of 2019. Containerized freight suns stood at 1.37 million tonnes (+ 12.0%, -1.0% and -1.8% respectively), the rotatable at 480mila tonnes (+ 18.2%, + 20.3% and 11.3%) and the other goods miscellaneous to 602mila tonnes (+ 10.6%, 0% and -3.9%).

Liquid bulk rinses totaled 2.11 million tonnes (+ 4.5%, -4.7% and -5.9%), including 1.69 million tonnes of refined petroleum products (-0.1%, -9.9% and -8.1%), 298mila tonnes of chemical products (+ 8.3%, + 8.5% and 8.4%) and 119mila tons of other liquid loads (+ 144.3%, + 98.4% and -5.5%). In the area of solid bulk, the overall figure was 1.81 million tonnes (+ 34.5%, + 50.4% and 1.8%), of which 495mila tonnes of metallurgical products (+ 10.1%, + 18.3% and 14.8%), 431mila tonnes of carbons (+ 220.7%, + 193.6% and -6.5%), 364mila tonnes of feed, fodder and oilseeds (+ 21.1%, + 8.9% and -10.0%), 349mila tonnes of minerals (+ 17.5%, + 217.9% and +225,4%), 90mila tonnes of cereals (+ 13.1%, + 32.9% and -59.0%), 62mila tonnes of chemical products (+ 38.7%, + 82.9% and + 96.8%) and 17mila tons of other solid bulk bulk (-55.3%, -84.1% and -85.9%).

In the first three months of 2022 the Cruserists in Venice were almost 4mila, traffic that-if it was absent in the corresponding period of 2021-scores of -35.5% and -77.9% percent flare-ups in the first quarter of 2020 and 2019. Ferries passengers were over 8mila (+ 36.9%, + 11.5% and -36.9%).

In the first quarter of this year, the port of Chioggia, which falls under the jurisdiction of the AdSP of the Northern Adriatic Sea, handled 245mila tons of goods, with a contraction of -12.9% percent over the same period in 2021.