Last October, the decline was more pronounced of cargo traffic in the port of Ravenna compared to expectations. The airport, in fact, handled a total of 1.95 million tonnes of cargo, down -16.7% on October 2022. In the bulk sector, solid bulk cargoes marked a decrease of -42.7% as they amounted to 621 million tonnes and liquid products recorded an increase of +20.2% in products oil prices amounted to 289 thousand tonnes and a contraction of -24.5% of other liquid cargoes, down to 137 thousand tons. In the miscellaneous goods segment, containerized cargoes have totalled 187 thousand tons (-3.4%), rolling stock 144 thousand tons (-19.3%) and other goods 570 thousand tons (+23.7%).

In the first ten months of 2023, the port of Ravenna handled a total of 21.63 million tonnes of goods, with a decrease of -6.5% on the same period last year year. In the bulk sector, petroleum products showed an increase of +2.9% with 2.23 million tons handled, while other liquid bulk fell by -12.0% to 1.66 million tonnes, and decreases were also dry bulk with 8.53 million tonnes. In the field of miscellaneous goods were handled: 1.99 million tonnes of containerized goods (-4.4%) with container handling equal to 183 thousand TEUs (-6.8%), 1.54 million tons of rolling stock (+2.6%) and 5.69 million tonnes of conventional goods (-0.5%).

In the first ten months of this year, cruise traffic at Ravenna had 330,000 passengers (+72.6%), of which 57,000 in October alone (+38.7%).

The Port System Authority of the Adriatic Sea Central‐Northern expects that in November 2023 the total of goods handled amounted to almost 1.8 million tonnes, with a reduction of -7.3% on November 2022.