In the third quarter of this year, freight traffic in the ports of Genoa and Savona-Vado Ligure, amounting to over 15 million tons, recorded a decrease of -4.7% which was contained by the increase in liquid bulk cargo, which partially compensated for the significant decrease in miscellaneous goods and Solid bulk cargo. In addition, the decline was generated by the -5.2% reduction in volumes handled in the port of Savona-Vado which amounted to 3.4 million tonnes, a reduction that was contained by the recount of the volumes of rolling stock and freight handled last year in the port of call of Savona which were lower by several tens of tons compared to what was previously noted. Traffic in the port of Ligurian capital, amounting to 11.6 million tons, marked instead a slight increase of +0.5%.

In the period July-September 2025, the traffic of the miscellaneous goods in the port of Genoa stood at 7.9 million of tonnes (-6.0%), of which 5.4 million tonnes of goods containerized vehicles (-7.9%) made with a handling of containers equal to 570 thousand TEUs (-8.7%), 2.5 million tons of rolling stock (-2.3%) and 130 thousand tons of conventional goods (+6,3%). The decrease in bulk cargo is much more marked shoals totaled 239 thousand tons (-25.6%), of which 163 thousand tons of metallurgical products (+8.9%), 42 thousand tons tons of minerals and building materials (-32.5%), 20 thousand tons of chemical products (+93.4%) and 13 thousand tons of other dry bulk (+25.8%). Liquid bulk cargo amounted to 3.5 million tonnes (+23.0%), including 2.4 million tonnes of crude oil (+32.1%), 887 thousand tons of petroleum products refined products (+5.3%), 109 thousand tons of chemicals (+1.6%) and 116 thousand tons of other liquid bulk (+34.6%).

In the port of Savona-Vado the quarterly total of miscellaneous goods was almost 1.4 million tonnes (-20.9%), of which one million tons of goods in containers (-20.5%) made with a handling of containers of 179 thousand TEUs (+50.9%), 176 thousand tons of rolling stock (-15.9%) and 195 thousand tons of other miscellaneous goods (-27.1%). Also in Savona-Vado the traffic of the Dry bulk cargo declined sharply, having been equal to 377 thousand tons (-23.0%), of which 146 thousand tons of coal (-40.2%), 138 thousand tons of minerals and building materials (+43.3%), 33 thousand tons of cereals (-48.9%), 31 thousand tons of feed, fodder and oilseeds (-37.1%), 17 thousand tons of chemicals (-11.1%) and 12 thousand tons of products metallurgical (-29.1%). Liquid bulk cargo grew by +21.1% to 1.7 million tonnes, including almost 1.6 million tonnes of crude oil (+21.1%), 79 thousand tons of products refined oil (+2.3%) and 33 thousand tons of other cargoes liquids (+113.9%).

In the third quarter of this year, passenger traffic in the The port of Genoa recorded a decrease of -6.4% in the ferries with 1.3 million people handled and an increase in +2.8% in that of cruises with 530 thousand passengers. In Savona-Vado both ferry passengers and those of cruises, equal to 253 thousand units respectively (-11.6%) and 183 thousand units (-2.3%).