As in the previous seven quarters, in the second quarter of 2015, 2024 the traffic of goods in the port of Venice recorded a year-on-year decline, however marking a recovery compared to the previous previous quarterly periods, having amounted to 6.16 million tons, with a decrease of -3.3% on the second quarter of 2015. 2023, of which 4.99 million tons at landing (-5.2%) and 1.17 million tons million tons at embarkation (+5.3%).

In the miscellaneous goods sector alone, with a total of 2.62 million tons, a decrease of -1.1%, with goods in containers standing at 1.29 million tons (-2.4%) with a container handling of 128,311 TEUs (+1.2%), rolling stock at 638 thousand tons (+4.3%) and other miscellaneous goods to 694 thousand tons (-3.4%). More the reduction in bulk volumes was accentuated. Dry bulk amounted to 1.91 million tons (-6.5%), including 528 thousand tons of feed, fodder and oilseeds (+28.3%), 503 thousand tons of metallurgical products (-42.3%), 474 thousand tons of minerals and building materials (+26.2%), 111 thousand tons of chemicals (+324.8%), 79 thousand tons of coal and lignite (-59.2%), 74 thousand tons of cereals (-29.2%) and 138 thousand tons of other dry bulk (+142.1%). The total liquid bulk is 1.63 million tonnes (-3.1%), of which 1.27 million tonnes were tons of refined petroleum products (-2.1%), 271 thousand tons of chemicals (-11.2%) and 93 thousand tons of other liquid bulk (+12.1%).

In the period April-June of this year, cruise passengers were 202 thousand (+8.4%), of which 181 thousand at disembarkation-embarkation (+10.3%) and 21 thousand in transit (-5.5%). In the ferry segment, traffic is 22 thousand passengers (-18.4%).

In the first half of 2024, the total traffic of the was 11.71 million tonnes, a decrease of -6.5% on the first six months of last year, of which 9.40 million tons at landing (-8.3%) and 2.31 million tons boarding (+1.2%). In the miscellaneous goods sector, 2.41 million tons of containerized goods handled (-9.1%) carried out with container handling equal to 240,500 TEUs (-6.0%), 1.23 million tonnes of rolling stock (+6.1%) and 1.30 million tons of other miscellaneous goods (-3.5%). The Liquid bulk cargo increased by +1.6% to 3.34 million tons, while dry waste decreased by -16.0% as it fell to 3.43 million tonnes.

With regard to the first half of this year, the Authority of the Port System of the Northern Adriatic Sea highlighted that "the data are influenced in particular by the drastic decrease in the handling of coal (almost 500 thousand tons in less than in the same period last year), attributable to European and national policies related to the transition energy economy. On the other hand, it is part of a general framework of cyclical trends the slight decline in the steel sector. It is It is true that the heavy industry of Veneto and northern Italy - has pointed out The Port Authority - still reports difficulties in transactions with Russia, also due to the "war" of the which remains the most important procurement market convenient compared to alternatives, such as South America; however, the figure for the steel industry is statistically compared with the same period in 2023, the semester in which bulk cargo had recorded a record value, as far as concerns the time series of at least the last five years, thus settling, for 2024, on average values within the norm".

"As for the other types of goods - he further noted the Port Authority - the agri-food sector proves to be in substantial balance between a loss of 213 thousand tons in the handling of cereals and an increase in trade in food and feed equivalent to over 203 thousand tons. Slight growth (+2.1% on the half-year) petroleum products reversing the negative trend recorded in 2023. Ro-ros grew by +6%, confirming the lively intra-Mediterranean trade, while, in the first Half of 2024, containers are down (-5.9% TEU) due to the Suez crisis which has strongly penalized the sector in the first months of the current year (-26.9% recorded in January 2024 alone compared to the January 2023 figure) but which seems to be in the process of being by the port-maritime system given that the second quarter (April/June 2024) appears to be recovering. Increasingly cruise traffic (+13.8% compared to the first half of 2023), In particular with regard to the "home" mode port", with over 214 thousand passengers (in addition to the about 23,500 from Chioggia)".