The Suez crisis, about six months into the consequent significant drop in the number of ships in transit through the canal Egyptian, raises "concern about the possible loss of traffic in and within Mediterranean ports, Italians'. This is highlighted by a second report on the "Crisis of Suez" by the Fedespedi Study Centre which, among the Possible, focuses on the 'reorganisation of the services to be companies, with increased use of transhipment and a reduction in the number of ports with direct services, or a different rotation with deletion of ports, or insertion of new ones. These eventualities - the document points out - could concern Italian ports as well."

"In fact, looking at the structure of the offer," he explains the Fedespedi report - various changes can be seen from the companies, including at the level of intramed services, inter alia in continuous becoming. A few examples, among many that could be Facts: X-Press Feeders has activated a new service that connects Tangier and Algeciras with Savona, Civitavecchia, Salerno, Naples; ONE reorganized the AIB feeder service by adding Trieste and the Piraeus (Piraeus, Alexandria, Damietta, Koper, Trieste, Venice, Ancona), CMA-CGM has removed Genoa and Livorno from the Euronaf service (ALGOM) replacing them with Barcelona (Barcelona, Marseille, Valencia, Algeciras, Oran, Mostaganem). We repeat - specifies the Report - It is still too early to assess the effects of the crisis of Suez on the ports of the Mediterranean in all its aspects. That which can be said, on the basis of the first available data, related to 2024 traffic, is that the situation that has is in fact benefiting, we would say inevitably, the ports closest to Gibraltar, such as Tangier (Eurokai terminal: +26%) and Spain (overall +12.1%), but the results of the much more distant are also good Turkish ports. the ports of the North Range are also growing (+4.5%), but at the moment lower than those of the ports Mediterranean Surveys. As far as Italian ports are concerned show an overall decrease of 3.2%. Among those La Spezia (+8.9%), Salerno (+5.1%) and Genoa are on the rise (+1.1%), while the others all show a negative sign, in particularly the Adriatic ones, such as Trieste, the results of which are impacted by the reduction in transhipment activities, Venice and Ravenna. On Italian ports, in addition to the Suez crisis, The lackluster performance of foreign trade, which has record, in the first two months of 2024, compared to the same two-month period of 2023, modest growth in exports (+0.6%) and a sharp contraction in imports (-10.4%)".