Last month, the ports of Genoa, Savona and Vado Ligure handled a total of 5.48 million tonnes of goods, with an increase of +7.4% due to the increase of +32.2% in volumes of mineral oils amounted to 2.08 million tonnes, and it is a global growth generated in the port of Genoa that more than offset the slight decrease of -1.8% in the Savona-Vado.

In January 2024, the only port of call in the Ligurian capital handled 4.18 million tons of cargo, with a Progression of +10.7% on the first month of last year. In the Miscellaneous Goods Sector Traffic amounted to 2.41 million tonnes (-3.0%), of which 1.65 million tonnes of goods in containers (-6.7%) and 763 thousand tons of conventional cargo (+6,0%). In the liquid bulk sector, 1.42 million tons of mineral oils (+46.7%) and 77 thousand tonnes of other cargo (+14.3%), including 35 thousand tonnes of vegetable oils and wine (+29.3%) and 42 thousand tons of chemical products (+4,1%). Dry bulk traffic in the commercial segment is amounted to 82 thousand tons (-26.2%) and in the industrial sector to 134 thousand tons (+44.5%).

In Savona-Vado of the global traffic of 1.30 million tons (-1.8%) miscellaneous goods totalled 496 thousand tons (-5.3%), with containerized traffic down -25.0% to 163,000 tons and a conventional traffic that is increased by +8.9% to 332 thousand tons. Bulk is on the rise liquids with 660 thousand tons of mineral oils (+9.1%) and 15 thousand tons of mineral oils tonnes of vegetable oils and wine (+19.5%), while dry bulk fell by -29.0% to 123 thousand tonnes.

Last January, passenger traffic in the port of Genoa was 117,000 people (-11.7%), of whom 65,000 were passengers ferries (-3.1%) and 53 thousand cruise passengers (-20.3%), while in Savona Ferry traffic was 1,205 passengers (-6.5%) and that of cruises of 40 thousand passengers (+102.7%).