In the first quarter of 2024, the port of Ravenna handled 6.11 million tons of freight, a decrease of -6.3% on the same period last year, of which 5.26 million tonnes of unloading cargoes (-6.7%) and 815 thousand tons at loading (-4,1%). During the period, only bulk cargo grew oil with 688 thousand tons (+11.6%), while the others liquid cargoes decreased by -11.2% to 520 thousand tonnes, and conventional goods totalling 1.40 million tonnes (+8.6%) on a total of 2.34 million tonnes of miscellaneous goods (-1.6%), which recorded a -15.8% decline in goods containerized vessels, amounted to 504 thousand tons with a handling of containers of 46 thousand TEUs (-15.8%), and the reduction of -11.2% of rolling stock, down to 430 thousand tons. Contraction also dry bulk with 2.56 million tons (-12.9%).

In March of this year alone, global traffic was 2.30 million tonnes, down -1.5% on the March 2023 generated by declines in dry bulk volumes (1.06 million tonnes, -1.6%), of containerised goods (192 thousand tonnes, -23.7%), rolling stock (149 thousand tonnes, -17.3%) and non-petroleum liquid bulk (167 thousand tonnes, -25.2%) fully offset by increases in freight volumes conventional (483 thousand tonnes, +10.5%) and petroleum products (249 thousand tons, +50.6%).

According to the first estimates of the Port System Authority of the Central and Northern Adriatic Sea, the month of April 2024 will be closed with a total traffic of two million tonnes, a decrease of -6.9% on April 2023.