In the third quarter of 2023, European Union ports handled 806.9 million tonnes of cargo, a decrease of -6.5% compared to the corresponding period of the previous year, which represents the fifth consecutive quarterly decline. The Reduction in volumes in the July-September period last year covered all the main product segments: liquids, with 304.7 million tonnes, suffered a decrease of -5.1%; the reduction in dry bulk totalling 172.8 million tonnes (-14,0%); In the container sector, 190.7 million euros were handled. million tonnes of cargo (-2.8%) and rolling stock 96.7 million tonnes; Other goods amounted to 41.9 million tonnes (-7.3%).

Eurostat has announced that in the third quarter of 2023, landed in EU ports amounted to €500.1 million tonnes, with a decrease of -7.2% over the same period in 2022 is the third consecutive quarterly decline, while goods amounted to 306.9 million tonnes, with a decrease of -5.4%, which is the eighth consecutive quarterly report.

In the third quarter of last year, the nations of the European Union whose ports handled more than 100 million tons of goods were the Netherlands, Spain and Italy, whose respective ports of call recorded a traffic of 132.9 million tonnes (-11.5%), 115.6 million tonnes (-5.3%) and 103.0 million tonnes tonnes (-12.5%).

Also in the third quarter of 2023, Rotterdam was the EU port that handled the largest amount of traffic with 99.1 million tons (-8.2%). To follow the ports of Antwerp-Zeebrugge with 58.2 million tonnes (-5.8%) and Hamburg with 24.5 million tonnes (-6.4%). Relatively container traffic alone, the quarterly ranking is always led by the port of Rotterdam with a traffic of 13.2 million TEUs (-7.8%) followed by the ports of Antwerp-Zeebrugge with 11.7 million TEUs (-6.0%), Hamburg with 7.8 million TEUs (-9.7%) and Piraeus with 4.8 million TEUs (+8.9%). First of the ports Gioia Tauro is Italian with 3.2 million TEUs (-6.8%).

Rectification Due to our incorrect extrapolation of Eurostat data, The strikethrough paragraph contains incorrect data. The correct paragraph is as follows: With regard to container traffic alone, the ranking is always led by the Port of Rotterdam with a traffic amounted to 3.4 million TEUs (-6.6%) followed by the ports of Antwerp-Zeebrugge with 2.8 million TEUs (-9.0%), Hamburg with 2.0 million TEUs (-0.4%) and Piraeus with 1.2 million TEUs (+5,0%). The first of the Italian ports is Gioia Tauro with 794 thousand TEUs (-14.3%). We apologize to our readers