In the third quarter of this year, Italy's access to the Network of global liner containerized maritime services is not Never been so high. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), in fact, has awarded for the period to Italy an LSCI index equal to 79.1, which is the most high ever and represents an increase of +4.5% on the index for the third quarter of 2022.

With the LSCI (Liner Shipping Connectivity Index) the UNCTAD intends to estimate the degree of connection of the ports of the nations to this network of scheduled services, index that has as a reference The indicator 100 assigned in the first quarter of 2006 to the nation (China) with the highest average. The index is defined based on six components: the number of weekly ship calls planned in the country; annual capacity (in TEU containers) offered by scheduled services in the country; the number of services regular to and from the country; the number of shipping companies providing regular services to and from the country; the size (in Teu stowable capacity) of the largest vessel employed by services to and from the country; the number of other countries connected to the country via direct scheduled services.

The LSCI indices for the third quarter of 2023 for the other European countries that are most connected to the network of services Global containerized seafarers see in descending order the Spain with an incidence 95.0 (+4.4%), the Netherlands with 91.9 (+1.4%), the Belgium with 89.2 (+1.6%), Germany with 81.8 (-2.1%), then Italy followed by France with 76.5 (+3.2%), Greece with 64.3 (+8.4%), Malta with 46.8 (+13.2%), Slovenia with 35.3 (-0.7%) and Croatia with 33.5 (-1.5%).

The accentuated increase in the degree of connection of Italian ports with the worldwide network of scheduled services was generated by the Significant increase in the index of connection to the network of Main container ports of the nation. For the first time since the start of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on business of ports, in the third quarter of 2023 the LSCI index relating to the port of Genoa has exceeded again that of the port of transhipment of Gioia Tauro, previously leader for connections to the network. The index for the July-September quarter of this year of Porto Genovese is 66.2, with a significant increase in +41.0% on the same period of 2022. An increase to which it is not However, an increase in containerized goods has been paid enlivened from the port of the Ligurian capital. Not being yet available traffic data enlivened from the port of Genoa Last month, it can be noted that in the period May-July of 2023 the airport, compared to an increase of more than +9% approximately of the expected departures during the period of commercial vessels carry out regular services to and from the port, has enlivened over 1.9 million tons of containerized cargo, with a decrease of -5.8% on the quarter May-July of 2022 (in terms of of container from 20 ', the traffic has been of 646 thousand teu, -5,7%).

The LSCI index of the port of Gioia Tauro relative to the third This year's quarter is 60.3, with a minus increase marked by +4.3%. On the other hand, the relative indices rose significantly. the ports of La Spezia (56.9, +50.6%) and Naples (52.4, +122.9%). A follow, in descending order, the LSCI indices of the ports of Trieste (34.5, +0.1%), Livorno (27.3, +6.0%), Civitavecchia (25.7, +2.6%), Vado Ligure (24.9, +3.4%), Salerno (23.9, +48.0%), Venice (10.9, +4.5%), Ravenna (9.7, -5.1%) and Ancona (9.6, +3.5%).