The month of June this year, as well as the entire first Half of 2023 and only the second quarter of the year, were negative periods for the ports of Genoa and Savona-Vado Ligure in terms of volumes of goods handled. Last June the loads passed in both ports, which are managed by the Authority of Port System of the Western Ligurian Sea, are amounted to 5,73 million tons, with a bending of the -2,3% on June 2022. In the entire first half of this year the total is State of 32,44 million tons, in decrease of -5,2% on the first mid-2022, and in the second quarter of 2023 alone volumes total amounted to 16.42 million tonnes, with a decrease of -7.0% on the period April-June last year.

In particular, in June 2023 the port of Genoa alone has Handled 4.32 million tons of goods, with a reduction of -1.0% on June 2022 and increments respectively of +0.8% and +21.2% on June 2021 and 2020 when the activity suffered the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, while the June 2023 figure is -11.7%, -9.6% and -9.1% lower on the same months of the years 2019, 2018 and 2017 preceding the health emergency. It is necessary to go back to June 2016, when they were moved 4.01 million tons, to find a volume of traffic inferior.

Even more negative is the comparison between the overall volume of goods enlivened from the Genoese port of call in the second quarter of 2023 of 12.71 million tonnes, and corresponding periods of previous years. Compared to the second trimester of the 2022 is recorded a bending of the -5,1% and a decrease of -1,9% was also marked with respect to the period April-June 2021. The quarterly figure for the current year is instead higher than +30.1% compared to the second trimester of 2020 when the health crisis had greatly reduced the port activities. The comparison becomes merciless compared again the second quarters of the pre-pandemic years of 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 and 2014, with respect to which the percentage changes, all negative, are -10.3%, -10.2%, -8.4%, -1.0, -4.3% and -2.0% and we must go back to the second quarter of the very distant 2013, when 12.25 million tons of goods, to show an increase (+3.8%).

With regard only to containerized goods handled in the second quarter of 2023 from the port of Genoa, turned out to be equal to 6,08 million tonnes, percentage changes were recorded -4.8%, -3.0%, +21.7% and -8.3% compared to the corresponding periods of 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019, traffic that has been realized with a handling of the container pairs to 643 thousand teu (-5.5%, -7.9%, +25.5% and -7.8% respectively). In the field of conventional freight traffic was 2.58 million tons (+2.1%, +3.2%, +39.4% and -1.4%). Also in the second quarter of this year the port of Genoa has enlivened 447 thousand tons of solid bulk (-14.4%, -27.4%, +2.2% and -39.9%), while in the liquid bulk sector the traffic of oils Minerals has been of 3,27 million tons (- 7.1%, +1.6%, +58.0% and -12.3%) and that of other liquid cargos of 162 thousand tons (-30.0%, -11.4%, -10.5% and -19.2%). The supplies of Fuel and on-board supplies totaled 174 thousand tons (-18.0%, -3.7%, -27.6% and -29.9%).

In full recovery, however, passenger traffic in the port of Genoa, with a second quarter of this year that has closed with 509 thousand ferry passengers (+13.8%, +103.0%, +394.1% and +11.3%) and with 487 thousand crocieristi (+110.4%, +1.059.1%, +32,481.7% and +12.6%).

Last June the port of Savona-Vado has enlivened a total of 1.40 million tons of cargoes, with a decrease of -6.2% on June 2022 and increases of +12.3%, +34.7% and +22.1% on same months as 2021, 2020 and 2019.

In the second quarter of 2023 the port of Savona, including the area of Vado, has enlivened 3.71 million tons of goods, with decreases of -12.8% and -0.3% on the corresponding periods of 2022 and 2021 and increases of +21.3% and +1.1% on the same periods of 2020 and 2019. In the segment of goods alone, miscellaneous goods were handled 1,94 million tons (+0.7%, +11.4%, +57.8% and +34.4%), of which 892 thousand tons of cargos in container (+16.5%, +29.1%, +130.3% and +484.6%). Liquid bulk amounted to 1.58 million tons (- 12.5%, +3.9%, +5.8% and +12.2%) and solid tons to 290 thousand tons (-41.5%, -34.2%, -13.3% and -64.5%).

In Savona in the second quarter of this year the traffic of Ferry passengers, equal to 88 thousand units, marked a decrease of -7.6% on the same period of 2022 and increases of the +461.0%, +1,734.3% and +25.8% on the corresponding periods of 2021, 2020 and 2019, while cruise passengers were 269 thousand, with increases of +158.4%, +1,284, 6% and +31.1% on the same periods of 2022, 2021 and 2019, while in 2020 cruise traffic was stopped due to of the pandemic.