2025 has started uphill for the port system of Western Liguria formed by the ports of Genoa and Savona-Vado Ligure which in the first month of the year moved 5.14 million tons of goods, with a decrease of -6.2% on the January 2024. The decline in traffic was particularly pronounced in the port of the Ligurian capital which handled a total of 3.73 million tonnes (-10.7%), of which 2.79 million tonnes in the Genoa-Sampierdarena basin (-12.8%) and 938 thousand tons in the port basin of Pra' (-3.5%). In Savona-Vado, on the other hand, traffic overall growth of +8.1% having amounted to 1.40 million tonnes, an increase that was generated by the volumes of 500 thousand tons handled in the port basin of Savona (+9.6%) and 401 thousand tons handled in the Vado basin Liguria (+121.5%) which was held back by the decrease in -24.0% of oil traffic handled at the Vado roadstead which was 502 thousand tons.

In addition, the overall reduction in traffic handled by the port system in January 2025 was determined by the decrease in liquid and dry bulk in the sector industrial as well as the decline in conventional goods. In the liquid cargo sector, 1.59 million tons of mineral oils (-24.5%), 32 thousand tons of oils vegetables and wine (-36.4%) and 23 thousand tons of chemicals (-45,5%). The traffic of conventional goods has been 918 thousand tons (-16.2%). Solid bulk in the sector amounted to 319 thousand tons (+55.6%). In the Container segment total was 2.14 million tons (+18.2%), a volume that was achieved with a handling of containers equal to 231,456 TEUs (+16.4%).

Last January, passenger traffic in the two ports -8.1% due to the significant decrease of cruise passengers, amounting to 78 thousand units, partially offset by the +2.8% increase in ferry passengers rose to 68 thousand units.