In the third quarter of 2024, the volume of goods handled by the port of Ravenna, equal to 6.25 million tons, marked a slight decrease of -0.7% on the same period last year, which was driven by the -5.0% reduction in loads at embarkation dropped to 821 thousand tons, while those at disembarkation remained stable having amounted to 5.43 million Tons.

In addition, the slight decrease was generated by the significant decrease of -8.9% in miscellaneous goods which amounted to a total of 2.54 million tons, of which 521 thousand goods in containers (-2.7%) made with a handling of containers equal to over 45 thousand TEUs (-8.1%), 431 thousand tons of rolling stock (-6.0%) and 1.59 million tonnes of other miscellaneous goods (-11,5%). On the other hand, bulk cargo is growing. The liquid ones have amounted to 1.22 million tons (+6.0%), including 583 thousand tons of refined petroleum products (+12.3%), 213 thousand tons of chemical products (-14.1%), 132 thousand tons of gaseous, liquefied or compressed petroleum products and natural gas (+6.8%), 54 thousand tons of crude oil (+80.0%) and 242 thousand tons of crude oil tons of other liquid cargoes (+3.5%). In the field of Dry bulk traffic was 2.48 million tons (+5.8%), of which 1.17 minerals and building materials (+23.0%), 512 thousand tons of foodstuffs, feed and oilseeds (-12.7%), 387 thousand tons of cereals (+7.6%), 59 thousand tons of coal (+195.0%), 15 thousand tons of products metallurgical products (+25.6%), 13 thousand tons of chemical products (-2.8%) and 318 thousand tons of other dry bulk (-20.0%).

Cruise traffic fell by -16.3% to 153 thousand total passengers, of which 21 thousand in transit (-20.1%) and 132 thousand in transit disembarkation/embarkation (-15.6%).

In the period January-September of this year, the port of Ravenna handled 18.86 million tons of goods, with a decrease of -4.2% on the corresponding period of 2023 and loads 16.32 million tonnes (-4.9%) and embarkation to 2.54 million tons (+0.5%).

The Port System Authority of the Central Adriatic Sea Settentrionale announced that, on the basis of the first data collected on the Port Community System, for the month of October 2024 it is estimated that total handling of almost 2.4 million tons, a significant increase of +21.5% compared to the same month of 2014 last year.