In the first quarter of this year, freight traffic in the port of Venice was 5.55 million tonnes, in decrease of -9.8% over the corresponding period of 2023. In the industry of liquid bulk cargo 1.70 million tonnes (+6.4%), in dry bulk 1.52 million tonnes, tonnes (-25.4%) and in the miscellaneous goods segment 2.32 million tonnes tonnes (-7.4%). The Port System Authority of the Sea Northern Adriatic explained that in the bulk sector The sudden decline was heavily affected by the fossil coal and lignite (-61.45%) linked to the strategy national energy sector, while in the case of miscellaneous goods, rolling stock, with 795 thousand tons, they marked a growth of +7.9%, and the containers, which amounted to 112,000 TEUs, suffered a reduction of -8.6% which - the port authority specified - is due to the Suez Canal crisis affecting the most of the Italian ports and the Eastern Mediterranean, Veneto included.

With regard to the port of Chioggia, the first three months of This year they were archived with 166 thousand tons and a increase of +40.7% almost entirely linked to dry bulk which show a growth of +24.5% with 117 thousand tons moved.

The PSA highlighted, in particular, traffic data passengers linked to the cruise industry thanks - specified the body - the new model of sustainable cruising inaugurated as a result of the Decree 103 of 2021: in the first quarter of 2024, cruise passengers There were almost 12,000 compared to more than 1,000 for the correspondent last year's period.

"As many analysts have already announced," he said. commented the president of the AdSP, Fulvio Lino Di Blasio - 2024 for Italian ports, and therefore also for those in the Veneto region, it will be a A rather complex year in terms of maritime traffic due to the the persistence of international tensions that are causing a unfavourable economic situation for the world economy and, as a result, and on the Adriatic in particular. It is A period that is putting the entire sector to the test, the same which, as already mentioned by Federlogistica, has seen the traffic Going through four international crises head-on a few years and maintain its global centrality. In In this sense, the data of substantial stability must be read, with a 2% growth in the commercial sector in the April period 2023-March 2024, by virtue of the performance of the Ro-Ro sectors and steel, for the ports of Venice and Chioggia. For that the System Authority, with the efforts of the entire community continues to work to maintain high competitiveness of our airports with all those activities and projects aimed at creating value for our territory: works financed by the PNRR and the calls for tenders for the excavation of the canals at the Construction of the new cruise terminal and the future terminal containers in Montesyndial, passing through investments related to new concessions and, in the near future and with an active role for the port, with the Simplified Logistics Zone'.