If in the first quarter of 2023 the traffic of goods in the port of Taranto, with a total of over 3,1 million tons, recorded a decrease of -12.9% on the same period last year, decrease generated by decreases in bulk volumes solids that have totaled 1,6 million tons (- 18.2%), of goods conventional with 687 thousand tons (- 7.9%) and goods in container with 44 thousand tons (- 81.1%), with the only rise of the liquid bulk piled to 837 thousand tons (+18.6%), in the Next two months the negative trend was strongly accentuated.

In the period April-May of this year, in fact, the traffic is totalled 2.4 million tonnes, with a reduction of -21.4% on the corresponding two-month period of 2022 that is generated mainly in April with a decrease of -36.1% compared to the same month last year, decrease that the month next was -3.6%.

In the April-May 2023 period, solid bulk cargoes are decreased of -32.4% going down to 1,2 million tons. The reduction of conventional goods is also significant, with 450 thousand tons (- 11.8%) and more contained that of bulk liquid with 731 thousand tons (- 4.6%). Growing considerably, although remaining marginal compared to other product categories, the traffic of container, which has been of 40 thousand tons (+92.1%).

In the first five months of this year the total traffic is Piled to 5,6 million tons, with a decrease of the -16,8% on the corresponding period of 2022.