The Port System Authority of the Central Tyrrhenian Sea has announced that in 2023 the traffic of goods in the ports of Civitavecchia, Fiumicino and Gaeta decreased -5.7% overall, i.e. amounted to €14.1 million compared to over 14.9 million tonnes in the previous year. After a +3.2% increase in cargo volumes handled in the first quarter of 2023 compared to the same period in 2022, in In the following quarter, traffic fell by -8.7% and then a decrease of -2.6% in the third quarter and a decline of -13.4% in the fourth quarter of 2023.

The PSA specified that in the whole of 2023, bulk goods solid, dragged by a coal traffic in complete (-970 thousand tons in the port of Civitavecchia), suffered a decline of -13.4%, while liquid bulk showed a distinctly positive sign. Worthy of note in the rolling stock sector - highlighted the port authority - the performance of cars in policy with a +53%.

Last year, passenger traffic on scheduled services, With a total of more than 1.6 million people, it recorded a increase of +10.0%, while cruise traffic reached a new all-time record of more than 3.3 million passengers, with a up +52.6% on 2022.

"In 2023 - commented the president of the AdSP, Pino Musolino - the war in Ukraine, geopolitical tensions, high inflation rates and rising interest rates have impact on the global economy, and over the course of the year economic development is increasingly slowed down. This has had impact on the entire logistics sector and therefore also on the towards our activities, resulting in a result in the negative complex, but which reflects the trend that all ports major in the world have suffered during the year. Suffice it to mention the three main ports in Europe: Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg, which reported -6.8%, -5.5% and -7.5%, respectively. Wanting to be even more punctual, taking into account the significant decline in the coal, completely beyond our control, the data of our PSA is much better, marking data growth, including a significant increase in a sector such as that of cars in insurance, which for years has seen Civitavecchia suffers and which instead in 2023 produced a +53%. It is Of course, you can't rejoice when you find data negative, but you have to keep your eyes on what you have to do. can actually be managed and developed locally, without allowing itself to be distracted or destabilized by geopolitical elements on which the individual ports have literally no ability to make an impact'.