Despite the increase in loads at loading, in the last quarter of 2023 accentuated the downward trend of traffic of goods in progress in the port of Venice, which has closed the period with a total of 5.37 million tonnes, down by -10.1% compared to October-December of the previous year, of which 4.12 million tonnes of goods at unloading (-14.2%) and 1.25 million tonnes million tons at loading (+6.5%). Miscellaneous goods only, with 2.26 million tonnes, remained stable, with 1.20 million tonnes of containerised cargo (+1.3%) made with a container handling of 119 thousand TEUs (+0.1%), with 592 thousand tons of rolling stock (+13.0%) and with 467 thousand tonnes of other miscellaneous goods (-16.1%). Bulk cargo is decreasing. Liquid waste amounted to 1.62 million tonnes (-11.3%), including 1.24 million tonnes of refined petroleum products (-17.9%), 273 thousand tons of chemical products (+13.4%) and 109 thousand tonnes of other liquid cargoes (+42.6%). Solid bulk cargo is amounted to 1.49 million tonnes (-20.7%), of which 373 thousand tonnes of metallurgical product (+83.8%), 342 thousand tonnes of minerals (+1.1%), 302 thousand tons of feed, fodder and seeds oily (-7.2%), 243 thousand tons of coal (-53.1%), 91 thousand tons of cereals (-76.5%), 26 thousand tons of products chemicals (-39.9%) and 110 thousand tons of other dry bulk (+82,8%).

In the passenger sector, traffic in the fourth quarter last year was 108 thousand people (+105.6%), of which 70 thousand cruise passengers (+680.6%), 20 thousand passengers of the local (+54.5%) and 18 thousand ferry passengers (-0.9%).

In 2023 as a whole, total freight traffic was by 23.27 million tonnes, a reduction of -5.5% year-on-year, including 18.62 million tonnes of cargo at unloading (-6.7%) and 4.65 million tonnes at embarkation (+0,1%). The global figure for miscellaneous goods was 9.74 million tonnes (+1.2%), of which 5.09 million tonnes of container loads (-3.6%) totalled with a handling of containers equal to 491 thousand TEUs (-8.0%), 2.27 million tons of ro-ro cargoes (+13.0%) and 2.37 million tonnes of other Miscellaneous goods (+1.9%). In the liquid bulk sector, 6.65 million tonnes (-15.3%) handled, with refined petroleum exports amounted to 5.17 million tonnes (-18.1%), chemicals at 1.13 million tonnes (-6.2%) and other cargoes at 350 thousand tons (+3.4%). Dry bulk amounted to 6.88 million tonnes (-3.6%), with 2.16 million tonnes of metallurgical products (+35.0%), 1.51 million tonnes of minerals (+14.4%), 1.19 million tonnes of tonnes of feed, fodder and oilseeds (-11.2%), 1.11 million tons of coal (-39.0%), 479 thousand tons of cereals (29.9%), 125 thousand tons of chemical products (-33.5%) and 298 thousand tonnes of other dry bulk (+72.9%).

In 2023, there were 662 thousand passengers (+78.3%), of which 508,000 cruise passengers (+121.1%), 90,000 ferry passengers (+17.2%) and 64 thousand passengers on local services (-0.8%).

In a 2023 that is certainly not positive for the port of Venice, as for many other world ports, the System Authority Port of the Northern Adriatic Sea celebrates, relatively per year, "the best result in the commercial sector ever historically achieved', in the face of industrial traffic for which - the president of the AdSP noted, Fulvio Lino Di Blasio - "We are witnessing repositioning mostly related to exogenous global phenomena that will stabilize in the medium term."

The port authority is also satisfied with the data relating to the passengers, although distant, in terms of the main segment of the cruises, from the records of previous years interrupted by the measures government authorities in 2021 that restricted access to Venice to large passenger ships.