In the fourth quarter of 2023, Liner Shipping Connectivity Italy's Index (LSCI), at 79.6, recorded an increase by +4.5% over the same period last year. The LSCI index is defined by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Finance. Development (UNCTAD) to determine the degree of integration of Ports of World Nations in the Maritime Service Network containerized and which has as a reference the index 100 awarded in the first quarter of 2006 to the country with the of connection that China was then and that is still with an LSCI index for the fourth quarter of 2019. 2023 equal to 180.4.

Among the other major European maritime nations, the only ones to in the fourth quarter of this year, a decrease in their own level of connection to this network have been the Kingdom Combined with an LSCI index of 90.2 (-0.3%), Germany with a index 82.3 (-0.6%), Slovenia with an index of 35.4 (-0.2%) and Croatia with an index of 33.5 (-1.5%). On the other hand, the SLCI indices of Spain (94.6; +3.0%), Netherlands (91.5; +0.6%), Belgium (87.6; +9.0%), France (77.4; +6.0%), Turkey (67.6; +4.2%), Greece (66.7; +11.6%), Portugal (65.4; +3.7%), Poland (57.8; +11.5%), Sweden (48.8; +0.7%), Malta (57.5; +39.0%) and Denmark (45.8; +0,5%).

As regards the degree of integration of the individual Italian ports in this worldwide network of maritime services, a level that UNCTAD has determined by defining the Port Liner Shipping Connectivity Index (PLSCI), is Genoa, which in the third quarter of this year past the port of Gioia Tauro, which for a long time held the most high degree of connections to the network, to still have in the fourth quarter of 2023 the highest level of network connections with a PLSCI index of the port of the Ligurian capital equal to 64.8, in Sharp increase of +34.8% compared to the fourth quarter of last year year. In second place is the Calabrian port of Gioia Tauro with an index of 60.1 (+4.6%). Followed by La Spezia with an index equal to 41.3 (+9.1%), Salerno with an index of 39.8 (+140.3%), Livorno with 37.9 (+46.5%), Naples with 35.0 (+48.0%), Trieste with 34.5 (+0.3%), Civitavecchia with 25.3 (+0.9%), Vado Ligure with 24.5 (+0.9%), Venice with 11.0 (+7.3%), Ravenna with 9.8 (+2.1%), Ancona with 9.6 (+6.2%) and Taranto with a PLSCI index of 7.0 (+84.8%).