Last month the traffic of goods in the port of Taranto is piled to 1,32 million tons, with an increase of +6.9% on August 2023 generated by the increases of the +10.4% and +2.3% of disembarkation and embarkation loads amounted to 776 thousand and 547 thousand tons. The increase in overall volumes is was mainly determined by the growth of +15.0% of dry bulk at 701 thousand tons and also contributed by the miscellaneous goods, with conventional loads that have totaled 276 thousand tons (+4.7%) and those in container 15 thousand tons (+247,4%). The liquid bulk is dropped of -8,2% going down to 330 thousand tons.

In the first eight months of 2023 the Apulian port of call has Handled 9.70 million tons of goods, with a decrease of -4.0% on the same period last year, of which 5.70 million tons of goods on disembarkation (- 0.9%) and 4,00 million tons at boarding (- 8.0%). The global figure for solid bulk It has been of 5,06 million tons (- 8.3%) and that of the liquid bulk of 2,63 million tons (+10.8%). In the sector of the miscellaneous goods were handled 1.89 million tons of conventional cargos (- 2.9%) and 122 thousand tons of container (-54,2%).

In the first eight months of this year cruise traffic Taranto has been of 96 thousand passengers (+31.1%), of which 50 thousand embarkation/disembarkation (+788.4%), while in August alone 2023 crocieristi have been 30 thousand (+30.3%), of which 16 thousand as home port (+590.6%).