Last April, the traffic of goods in the ports of Genoa and Savona-Vado Ligure increased by +11.3% compared to the previous year. same month of 2023 having amounted to 5.76 million tonnes. The growth was generated by the +49.4% rise in loads handled at the Savona airport, which totalled 1.75 million tonnes, including 584,000 tonnes in the Savona (+49.2%), 459 thousand tons in Vado (+72.2%) and 710 thousand tons in the roadstead of Vado (+37.7%), while traffic In the airport of the Ligurian capital it remained unchanged amounted to 4.01 million tonnes, of which 2.81 million tonnes million tonnes in the Genoa basin (-0.7%) and 1.19 million tonnes in the tonnes in Pra' (+2.1%).

In Genoa alone, the total traffic of miscellaneous goods an increase of +6.9% to 2.87 million tonnes, of which 2.11 million tonnes of goods (+8.5%) made with a handling of containers equal to 226 thousand TEUs (+9.3%) and 759 thousand tons of goods Conventional. In the dry bulk segment, traffic was 47 thousand tons (+167.9%) and the industrial of 64 thousand tons (-38.8%). In the 920 thousand tons of oils were handled in liquid bulk minerals (-15.3%), 41 thousand tons of chemical products (+42.4%) and 17 thousand tons of vegetable oils and wine (-45.9%). Unchanged on Volume of bunker supplies and on-board supplies with 47 thousand tonnes (-0.8%).

The overall traffic of miscellaneous goods in Savona-Vado is 837 thousand tons (+53.7%), including 424 thousand tons of container loads (+77.2%) totalled with a handling of containers equal to 34 thousand TEUs (+42.1%) and 413 thousand tons (+35.3%). Liquid bulk traffic was 710,000 tons of mineral oils (+37.7%) and 7 thousand tons of oils vegetables and wine (+6.5%), and that of dry bulk by 197 thousand tonnes (+91.0%). On-board supplies fell by -38.7% dropping to less than 3 thousand tons.

In the passenger sector, in April 2024, passenger traffic ferries marked a decrease both in Genoa with 75 thousand passengers (-11.5%) and in Savona with 4 thousand passengers (-59.9%), while cruise traffic in Genoa has shown an increase by +10.7% rising to 144 thousand passengers and in Savona it suffered the first decline after the shutdown of the activity in the period of the Covid-19 pandemic having been 80 thousand passengers (-30.1%).