Ro-ro traffic and regional routes will increasingly become important for the development of the port of Ancona. These are the Future growth prospects for the Doric port highlighted yesterday during the conference "The port as a pole of strategic development of the territory: traffic, infrastructures and the new drivers of the future" which was organized by the Port System Authority of the Adriatic Sea Centrale, by Intesa Sanpaolo and the SRM Study Center.

Analyzing the 2024 Report on the Maritime Economy by SRM and specific research carried out on the potential for development of the port of Ancona it is clear that the maritime economy of the Marche it has a value of 5.4 billion euros and weighs about 19% on the overall import-export trade of manufacturing, with a growth of +27% compared to 2018 when the value was 4.3 billion euros. According to the in-depth study of the Study Center SRM, the region's foreign trade by sea about 26% of them are concentrated in relations with East Asia. This is followed by non-EU European countries and North America. France is the first market in terms of value of goods exported by districts of the Marche region with approximately 623 million euros (+11.8% in 2014) 2023 compared to 2022) followed by Germany and the United States.

The heart of the SRM analysis of the Doric port was the comparison with a sample of 300 manufacturing companies in the Marche and Marche Abruzzo, who import and export goods by sea. 50% of the sample indicated Ancona as the port of call used for import via containers, 25% for export use. The same percentages concern the use of the Doric port for activities ro-ro.