In the second quarter of this year the port of Venice has handled 6.29 million tons of goods, volume that represents a decrease of -3.5% on the period April-June of 2022, increases of +2.6% and +18.4% on the corresponding periods of 2021 and 2020 when the activity was impacted by the pandemic of coronavirus and with an increase of +1.6% on the second trimester of the 2019 when the health crisis had not yet begun.

In the miscellaneous goods sector alone, 2.63 were handled million tons (respectively +4.2%, +10.3%, +28.8% and +3.7%), of which 1,32 million tons of containerized cargos (-7.7%, +3.7%, +12.1% and -10.3%) achieved with a movement of containers pairs to 127 thousand teu (- 13.4%, -3.9%, +1.9% and -21.1%), 587 thousand tons of rolling stock (+14.2%, +26.5%, +52.2% and +25.0%) and 719 thousand tons of other goods miscellaneous (+24.7%, +11.8%, +51.4% and +21,7%).

In the liquid bulk segment the total was 1,70 million tons (- 14.8%, -15.3%, -9.5% and -24.2%), included 1.31 million tons of refined petroleum products (-18.4%, -22.6%, -12.6% and -28.9%), 306 thousand tons of products chemicals (-8.3%, +7.8%, -4.2% and -10.9%) and 83 thousand tons of other loads (+45.5%, +184.2%, +40.6% and +46.7%).

Solid bulk totalled 1.96 million tons (-1.8%, +12.6%, +41.0% and +38.7%), of which 864 thousand tons of metallurgical products (+49.9%, +72.5%, +67.9% and +120.4%), 412 thousand tonnes of feed, fodder and oilseeds (-10.0%, -22.2%, -16.6% and +29.1%), 375 thousand tons of minerals (- 2.6%, -7.5%, +496.6% and +406.3%), 139 thousand tons of coal (-71.9%, -10.3%, +42.6% and -62.5%), 105 thousand tons of cereals (+968.4%, +30.4%, +74.2% and -0.5%), 10 thousand tons of chemicals (-79.0%, -77.4%, -65.7% and -72.6%) and 57 thousand tons of other dry bulk (+119.2%, +108.9%, -57.2% and -51.3%).

In the second quarter of 2023, passenger traffic from Ferries and local services was 39 thousand people (+6.6%, +190.4%, +755.8% and -26.2%), while cruise passengers were 173 thousand, with increases of +132.4% and +1,822.3% on the second quarters of 2022 and 2021 and a decrease of -68.9% on the second trimester of 2019, while in the second quarter of 2020 the activity It was stopped because of the pandemic.

In the first six months of 2023 the port of Venice has enlivened 12,34 million tons of goods, with a bending of the -4,7% on the first half of last year, while the port of Chioggia - also administered by the System Authority Port of the Northern Adriatic Sea - has enlivened 289 thousand tons (-28.1%).