In the third quarter of this year, with 2.94 million tons handled overall, the traffic of goods in the port of La Spezia recorded a slight decrease of -0.5% on the same period of 2023 entirely attributable to the continuation the sharp global decline of -73.6% in liquid bulk volumes equal to to 104 thousand tons, of which 89 thousand tons of liquefied gases (-73.0%) and 15 thousand tons of refined petroleum products (-76,7%). On the other hand, the significant growth of the various goods, a sector in which 2.79 million tons of containers (+9.9%) with a handling of containers equal to 299,862 TEUs (+5.5%), of which 276,788 TEUs in import-export (+5.7%) and 23,074 TEUs in transhipment (+3.4%), and 35 thousand tons of other miscellaneous goods (+92.5%).

In the period July-September, cruise traffic in the port La Spezia was 290 thousand passengers (+0.8%) for the almost totality in transit.

The decline in the traffic of the in the port of Marina di Carrara and in the third quarter of 2014 2024 handled a total of 1.07 million tons of loads (-15.6%). Miscellaneous goods amounted to 948 thousand tons (-1.9%), including 494 thousand tons of rolling stock (+8.1%), 326 thousand tons tons of containerized goods (-3.0%) made with a Handling of containers equal to 24,709 TEUs (-6.0%) and 128 thousand tons of other miscellaneous goods (-26.1%). Dry bulk is decreased by -58.8% to 126 thousand tons.

In the third quarter, cruise passengers transited through the port of Marina in Carrara were almost 20 thousand (+120.1%).